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[quote=Anonymous]I'm glad you are asking and looking for information.

Autism is a spectrum, as other posters have said. Our DS is considered high functioning. He has some qualities you would traditionally see as "autistic" and others that you don't. For example, he flaps his arms when he's excited, but he also builds and designs elaborate science projects that are high above his age and grade level (he's 5). If you don't know us, or him, you might run across him and just think he is a little different. Meanwhile we know that it was three years of speech therapy to get him to say a word and now we're in OT and behavior therapy.

I generally think kids are much more open to other children who have different types of disabilities. At school, the kids just all play together without noticing a difference.

I don't know how to explain this to other kids. I don't really discuss it with friends or neighbors who don't understand. His friends don't really notice a difference, and our friends who know, still don't quite understand what its like to be in the trenches.  
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