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[quote=Anonymous]My son had level one late diagnosis as a teen. Today I noticed he was trying to send an email just like a text to adult in an authority position. I tried to coach him to include a salutation and thank that adult who thinks he was taking care of somethings for him ( Team activity and the adult here is the coach) My son didn’t understand the need for it. I tried to explain it to him. He was in tears and said why didn’t you teach me these things when I was a kid I saw all the other kids being much more polite than me. his question broke my heart he is right I never really taught him as a kid of these things. I mostly picked up these things myself as a kid and I assumed he would too. I did notice that he doesn’t greet others when he meets them. He was always socially shy so I didn’t push him. We feel like a failure is it too late to those skills, he is in high school . We got a diagnosis last year which makes it clear that he needed a lot of support. May be I was in denial but I did try my best took him to different specialists depending on his struggles but no one pointed to Autism until now.[/quote]

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