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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would tell him, and have support ready to help him come to terms with the diagnosis. The whole reason you got to this diagnosis was because your son was struggling and unhappy, and not telling him isn't going to change that. It can be hard to have a label, but understanding why you struggle is a huge part of figuring out what kind of help you need to work with your challenges and be happy.[/quote]

This. But that's assuming that the diagnosis is accurate. I would have a hard time trusting a diagnosis if it came without the kind of assessment that would be obvious to a 17 year old.[/quote]

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What do you mean? What kind of an assessment would it Entail?[/quote]

My child's autism diagnosis came after 8 hours of testing. I don't know exactly what the tests looked at, since I wasn't in the room with them, but it was obvious to my 10 year old that *something* was happening. You don't asses for autism on the sly. You also don't get an autism diagnosis (even a high functioning autism diagnosis) unless the symptoms are interfering with life in some way -- making it difficult to make friends, for example. If everything is hunky dory wonderful and the fact that anything is wrong would come as a surprise to your son, then I'd question the diagnosis. If your son knows something is wrong (or that he has trouble doing things he'd like to do) but has misconceptions about what autism means, that's a different kind of conversation.[/quote]

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