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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PPS, I recognize you and your descriptions of your DS. I have commented before that my DD seems more severely impacted than your DS (has similar issues and more) yet we have not received an ASD diagnosis. Sometimes it seems to depend on who does the evaluating. If you had gone to KKI like we did perhaps you would have received a different diagnosis. It doesn't really matter for us at this point because we are treating the symptoms and a diagnosis wouldn't necessarily change things. But whenever I read your posts I wonder why your kid has an ASD dx and not mine. I don't think we could get an Asberger's diagnosis, however, because her speech is delayed and still a bit babyish.[/quote]

So far, we've been evaluated by a psych from George Washington, Children's, Stixrud and Dr. Shapiro who all diagnosed ASD/Asperger's.  The one place we haven't been evaluated is at KKI, true, but we don't feel that there is any question about DS's diagnosis at this point.[/quote]

I'm the poster who brought the thread back. 
How old are your kids? (PP & OP) I wonder if that's a big factor in the diagnosis. My son is only 4 so when you mention things like not picking up on social cues, I can't tell if that's even an issue yet. Most 4 year olds are brutally honest and sometimes inappropriate. I don't know if its too soon to get him evaluated, but I know the OCD things and constant scripting isn't "normal." I just desperately need to know why he does these things. [/quote]

I'm the pp and the OP of the thread, my kid is 7 yrs old.  He was diagnosed when he was 4.  DS never scripted nor he display OCD behaviors unless you mean having obsessive interests in things like fans and doors at that age.[/quote]

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