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[quote=Anonymous]It’s 100% normal and expected for you to feel overwhelmed and blame yourself for missing it if your son would receive a late autism diagnosis. I know; I’ve been there! But as our dc’s specialist said to us, there’s nothing to feel guilty about because if your dc is so high functioning that specialists didn’t catch it for years, he is too high functioning for ASD-specific interventions. You are treating symptoms as they appear and getting help for your son to improve in areas where he has deficits — which is exactly what you would have done had you had the diagnosis from the beginning. A diagnosis now wouldn’t alter the trajectory of your son’s life; it would just help him have a deeper understanding of himself. It’s an explanation, not a sentence.[/quote]
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