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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pardon my ignorance as I have a toddler who was just diagnosed with ASD, but how is it that children 8 and up are just being diagnosed.  Were they able to go to regular schools?  Did you know something was amiss but just waited to get a diagnosis? I just know that probably there is no way my kid will even go to mainstream schools... and the diagnosis was mild ASD.[/quote]

Well, for us we were overseas and just returned to the USA. The country we were in did not have anyone qualified to test for ASD. She has been in mainstream classrooms her whole educational career, but she has struggled socially and with behavior. I am sure if we were here in the USA, she would have been diagnosed earlier. Yet, the spectrum is very broad now, so there are kids - especially some girls who may do well in school/ socially until 3rd grade or so, then the traits really emerge, and the differences become more obvious. Especially if they would have been categorized as Aspergers previously. [/quote]

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