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[quote=Anonymous]My son is 8 now, he was diagnosed the moment he turned 2. If I recall, he scored 1 point over the line to qualify as ASD. So he is very borderline. At the time, his doctors all couldn't wait until he turned 2 to formally diagnose him, his symptoms were obvious. They faded when he left the toddler years. However, the other day I looked up symptoms of Aspergers (I know it doesn't exist as a term but I was looking for mild autism for older kids), he fit almost every item.

He has many friends, he has no difficulty making friends. I think he doesn't pick up social cues, he doesn't know/care about birthdays or school drama, so he considers everyone a friend so they all like him. He gets very focused on things that matter only to him at strange times now. He has meltdowns easily if his routine changes, even if I get him early from school to do something fun.

I got him involved in sports early. And scouts. And an instrument and encouraged his love of board games, math. Do it early while kids can say and do dumb things and it's ok, and I did it all with the goal of meeting other kids and teaching him to make friends based on interests. He reads a lot of books about kids his age (fiction) so I'm hoping it kind of teaches him how to interact with the world.

I worry a lot the older grades will be harder too. He has a hard time seeing things from other people's perspectives and it comes across as lack of empathy, but for now we are managing without support.

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