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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How old is your child, OP?

When my child was first diagnosed with "high functioning autism" when he was 5, I felt the same as you. I didn't feel comfortable lumping my highly verbal, academically capable child with the picture of autism I had in my head.

Now that my child is older, I can see that he is, indeed autistic. His social communication deficits and his desire to engage in repetitive activities are more obviously restrictive. Yes, he's still very verbal and (sometimes) academically capable, but I can see how it's a difference in degree, not a different thing, from people who are classically autistic.[/quote]

Can you tell us more PP? How old is your child and when did you start seeing the differences more clearly?
DS12 has trouble with emotional regulation, and sometimes talks too much or too loudly and tends to be in other people's space more than other children his age. He's also very clumsy. [b]On the other hand, he has a wide range of interests from sporty to academic, has a lot of friends and is very social and has good grades[/b].
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your child is not autistic.  [/quote]

NP here- the description above fits my child too, and when he was 6 he got an ASD diagnosis from Children’s National.  He also has ADHD, dysgraphia and gross and fine motor challenges.  [b]He can talk at obnoxious length about many subjects and will switch to a new one if someone appears bored[/b].  We are doing social skills groups to help with the theory of mind and emotional regulation.  We’ll see where we end up diagnostically.  The one benefit of the ASD label is that the school doesn’t fight IEP eligibility.  Implementation is a whole different issue.[/quote]

well thanks for proving OP's point. If your kid socializes normally yet has an ASD diagnosis, it's very hard to understand. [/quote]
The bolded is not normal behavior.  It may sound from a single sentence description that it is merely quirky behavior, when you actually interact with an ASD kid over time, you often see that it is more than that. [/quote]

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