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[quote=Anonymous]I know the conventional wisdom now is to tell, but I haven't told my 11 yo ds and don't plan to. We do talk a great deal about strengths and weaknesses, learning styles, differences in how people perceive things, and he has a high degree of self awareness about who he is. I think for some kids this may be enough - to me, it feels similar to the way I have not disclosed "giftedness" to his sibling.

I know that for some people a dx of ASD is empowering because it explains their symptoms and life experiences so well. From experience reading and discussing books about characters with ASD with my son, it's clear to me that he doesn't see himself as having anything in common with them. He sees himself as "typical" which is interesting as he has a lot of challenges. But I'm not sure it would help to tell him differently.

I don't think ASD is quite like other disorders or a medical diagnosis, in the sense that the range of kids included is so broad and we haven't seen kids dx'd under the current criteria grow up, so we don't really know what adulthood looks like for them as ASD-identified people.

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