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[quote=Anonymous]Girls are diagnosed later and present less typically, so if this were a daughter I'd certainly pursue it. It seems from your post that you have a son, though. It's possible it's HFA, but it seems to me (and of course all I know is what I read in your post) unlikely, especially if your son is 12 and has been in school and working with therapists and nobody has ever raised this as a possibility AND you're reading about ASD now without any bells going off. I'm not discouraging you from an eval because maybe there are other issues it might tease out, if not HFA. Have you tried other therapists? It sounds like your child is not responding to her strategies and therapy, and she's searching for some answers--it might be worth trying someone else too.[/quote]
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