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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FYI, Ivymount Outreach also has a social skills group just for girls.  [/quote]

Op here. Part of the reason I'm not totally sold on ASD being a possibility for my daughter is her social skills are fine. She doesn't struggle at all there- lots of friends, participates in activities. She misses unspoken things like passive aggression and sarcasm (the pragmatics issue) but other than that, does not struggle at all with social skills or in social situations. [/quote]

if she does fine socially it is not autism, period. is it even age appropriate to expect 7 year olds to understand sarcasm and passive aggression? it sounds like you might be over-focusing on things within the range of normal as you try to sort out the actually functionally problematic stuff. [/quote]

I'm not trying to focus specifically on anything. I'm simply trying to see if what professionals suggest for my kid fit her. The specialist mentioned the things like sarcasm, someone leaving her out on purpose but not telling her why (passive aggression) as things that she is not correctly perceiving or noticing. Since she knew my DD's age and mentioned those, I assumed she meant those were age appropriate things she should be picking up on now.

I am absolutely seeking all avenues of helping her and am not swayed in any one particular direction as to what she has or doesn't have. I have no hang ups about any potential diagnoses. I just brought up ASD because it was mentioned to us as a possibility for the first time and I was curious since I could see my daughter meeting the standard for PDD which is no longer in existence, but not ASD since she lacks many of the things for that diagnosis. But, if she would have been PDD at one time although not ASD, she would now be ASD simply for showing the signs of PDD I would assume... It's hard to get your brain around![/quote]

PDD was kind of a vague catchall that nobody could agree on what it should contain.  Some of those kids would now be ASD. Others might SCD.  And still others might just be "quirky."[/quote]

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