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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD with MERLD (undiagnosed till she was 14) had a small, tight group of 3 friends in elementary school, but had no other friends. And when they all dispersed in middle school, things got really rocky. She had a few acquaintances from school she'd hang out with occasionally, but none blossomed into a friendship.

For DD it's both having a hard time both getting the conversation, especially in a group, and then being able to coherently say what she's thinking about in response.

Interestingly, she has had two long-term boyfriends, one in high school and another now in college. She is better at communicating one-on-one and has a couple friends at college but hates going to parties.[/quote]

Just curious- how/why was this diagnosed so late in life? Seems like it should have been flagged-it’s not a mild/not obvious thing when a child doesn’t understand spoken language. [/quote]

She was not a late talker, and through preschool seemed to have OK language skills with several preschool friends. It wasn't till early elementary that it became clear (to me at least) she was having trouble following the teacher, as well as classmates when they spoke. Even then, quiet = well behaved, and teachers thought she was fine. In fact, even though she had a lot of issues that presented as short-term memory problems, in the two IEP meetings (elementary and middle school) I requested resulted in me basically being mocked as an over-involved mother who cared only about grades. That was clearly not true, but basically how special ed identification n MCPS works.

I finally sprang for neuro-psych testing on my own, and this was one of the diagnoses, in addition to a math disability and a couple other things. The psychologist identified her main LD as MERLD and I never knew it wasn't considered a "real" diagnosis by some until reading that on DCUM. She doesn't appear to be HFA to me at all as she gets social cues, emotions, etc. It's definitely a language issue for her. It took her years to understand the point of puns, for example.[/quote]

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