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Here's the thing..at the same time I was on the ball about getting an eval, I was consumed with worry about whether or not it was autism and trying to convince the world it wasn't and then trying to convince people it was. Autism is a label for a constellation of behaviors. There are so many forms and so any different ways it presents. It does not tell you what the future holds. It just tells you your child is at risk and needs help in these areas. There are many predictors of positive outcome and one of them is early intervention. I myself kept putting the cart before the horse and thinking if it's autism then my child will never be independent/never make friends/never enjoy school/never .... I was wrong. There are all different degrees of impairment and there are so many good interventions out there. There are no guarantees my child will be just fine whatever that means, but the label does not tell you what the outcome will be.[/quote]

Well said.  I agree and had a similar experience.  I lost way too much sleep over these worries.  We still don't know exactly what is going on with DC, but the situation now isn't nearly close to the nightmare situations I was envisioning in my head.  Don't know if it is the early intervention or just the passing of time, but things are way better now.  [/quote]

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