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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gosh, I wish you would get her tested.  We thought it was clear our daughter, who sounds a lot like yours, was not autistic -- she had friends, she cared about feelings, she held conversations with people, adults like her, she was a rule follower, etc.  But she shares with your daughter some of the same perfectionism, not wanting to start a new skill unless she'd be good at it, obsessing over her interests, ability to have conversations beyond her years (she talks like an old man sometimes, knows lots of big words, etc), she's smart, and so so stubborn -- she has mental blocks about some things.

Our pediatrician never recommended getting her evaluated.  We were getting her CBT therapy to help with anxiety and that therapist, after a pretty long time, eventually recommended we do an evaluation.  It's so easy to miss autism in girls.  It presents differently and autistic girls can be very social!

If you have the money, I do recommend getting evaluated if you can fwiw.  jmho[/quote]

OP here - thank you for your input. Can I ask what type of evaluation it was? And what was the recommendation afterward? Medication? More therapy?

Part of what I am struggling with here is that no one - not the pediatrician, her therapist of some time now, any teacher, counselor, instructor, etc. has ever recommended any testing or evaluation. So I am left thinking what exactly is the goal/what exactly that we are trying to achieve? That is not clear to me.[/quote]

Different poster here. The ASD diagnosis for my son has provided some insight into strategies that are most likely to be effective when my son needs to learn something that triggers his sensory challenges.

It has also helped us understand him better, and find ways to help him understand himself. [/quote]

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