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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Every child is different.  Some have minor deficits that don't show up until the demands at school get greater.  In other cases, [b]severe ADHD looks so much like mild ASD that it is hard to tell them apart[/b].  Don't assume that your child will never go to mainstream schools.  With proper early interventions, many ASD kids are mainstreamed and go on to lead successful lives.  They may never be the life of the party, but they have good jobs, a family and friends.

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In our case with DS with both ASD and ADHD, the mild ASD/Asperger's is much easier to live with than the moderate ADHD, combined type.  I am not sure why people usually assume that ASD is always worse than ADHD.[/quote]

They don't. And it is why some of us do find it frustrating when we have a hard time qualifying for Child Find and related services/preschools and not getting ABA covered.[/quote]

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