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[quote=Anonymous]My 12 year old has been in therapy and on medications for years because of anxiety. His therapist recently suggested that she is starting to consider whether he also has high functioning autism. She says that it is not uncommon for this to be discovered around his age if it is an atypical case, though it is nothing we have ever considered and no one else has ever suggested it. I'm not sure what to think. I've been googling for characteristics/symptoms used to diagnose and that hasn't really helped (perhaps not surprisingly). I was wondering what the process was for getting an evaluation. Who does the evaluation? Or who should we have do the evaluation? What are the criteria that are considered? Also, has anyone mistaken HFA for general and social anxiety? [/quote]
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