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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sadly, OP, you have to wait for the behaviors to get even worse before they'll be willing to seek professional help. If you come on too strong, you will push further into denial. I've witnessed that in action.

Ultimately it's useless to scare them with diagnoses like autism, even if that's what she may have. What she needs is anxiety management, and you can gently remind her parents to address that with a professional and read up on the topic... but it's going to be an uphill battle, even if they're both engaged and motivated. I'm a 45 year old anxious mother with two anxious kids, one of whom is on the spectrum. It's a lifelong condition and it needs to be managed. This family will realize this at some point.
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This, OP. You’ve tried to help and there really isn’t a ton you can do aside from limiting your child’s time with their cousin if their cousin’s behavior exhausts them. We have family and friends who have been resistant to evaluations and in one case it will probably take the child’s mainstream private school counseling the child out or threatening to do so (they came close to doing so last year) because the parents are resistant to any label other than ADHD despite clear defects associated with ASD and fairly severe motor challenges. The other family recently received a diagnosis for their 13 year old after their teenager started to experience autistic burnout. They long suspected ASD but assumed that treatment for dyslexia and ADHD was enough, but their child needed more. [/quote]

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