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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP with a disheartening update. I’m still exploring options and I contacted an education center that provides individualized tutoring for students with learning disabilities and ADHD. I had a good chat with the director and things were going well until I mentioned that DS has both autism and ADHD. I reassured her that he’s very high-functioning, no aggressive behaviors, and that it’s his ADHD that affects his education more but I could hear her tone change. She went from interested to condescendingly sweet. Now I don’t want to disclose his diagnosis at all in the admissions process if this is what it’s like even with a special-needs tutoring center. Autism feels like a scarlett letter and I can’t believe how ignorant educators are to the fact that it’s a broad spectrum.[/quote]

I am sorry that happened to you. Mainstream privates absolutely don't want to deal with ASD, I was surprised when you said in OP public or mainstream private. Even for a sweet child with no behaviors, they cannot commit to supporting you because children can change. Once kids hit puberty they may need more supports at which point the school has to gently counsel you out.  In middle school social complexity increases rapidly together with the difficulty of academic material. A lot of interactions and learning will be based on inference - both socially and academically. This is the main deficit with ASD children.  A problem free 6 yo who reads at grade level may look very different at 9-10 and struggle mightily without appropriate supports. Mainstream privates and even SN-light schools (catering to learning differences and ADHD) are not staffed to support or understand ASD.  I have a child with same AuDHD profile and wish this was not so, but alas.
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