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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s all labels. What problem or symptom do you see?[/quote]

Social struggles, becoming more apparent as time goes on (now 8th grade).  I've always had to support a lot with nurturing those friendships, but at this age, it falls on the kids more, and she struggles with those skills, or claims that she would rather spend time to herself or doesn't need friends. Maybe it's also that she is about 2 years behind physically/emotionally in maturity.

Lack of flexibility or wanting to try things.  And this is not a problem, but it's just a trait- she still engages in many of the things she engaged in as a small child.  Playing in sand, collecting found nature and mixing them together, observing a worm for a good 20 minutes, for example.

Lack of time awareness.  1 hour often feels like 5 minutes to her.

General slowness and lack of ability to focus on schoolwork.  Homework that should take 50 minutes, quite often takes her 5 hours. But she always gets it all done, and pretty much receives perfect marks in all subjects.  The only time she does not is when she forgets to turn something in.[/quote]

I don't know why you are jumping to autism, that sounds like ADHD as well.
But in any case, the time for labels is when it is severely impacting her life.  Two people could have identical symptoms, one has severe life impacts and one for whatever reason does not, so it's only worth pursuing labels and treatments for the one with life impacts.[/quote]

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