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Very early on, as a toddler, we were worried he had autism. At two he would sit on the floor staring into space and not react when I called his name and waved my hand in front of his face. In preschool he would daydream and couldn't listen to directions. No "boyish" (do you mean running around, pushing and yelling?) behaviors, on the contrary - he was very calm and quiet, which makes sense when you understand that he wasn't really present (he was thinking in his head).

At 4 he said "I have a TV in my head that I can't turn off" and he was diagnosed at 6 with ADHD.  He couldn't remember multi-step directions in class and was so slow he could never finish any task, even with extra time. I had to repeat requests maybe 25-30 times before they percolated through his daydreams and short-term memory issues. He failed 4th grade English because he could never remember to turn in the homework he had spent hours doing at home (painful!). He went through a full neuropsychological evaluation and it was determined that he had severe inattentive ADHD. Symptoms of that and Asperger's can overlap, but we did not pursue a supplemental HFA (high-functioning autism) evaluation. I suspect he's mildly Asperger's as well, since some men in the family have those tendencies. The meds for ADHD worked miracles, and he was able to focus in class and is now medicated as a teen and doing well in school.
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