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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP perhaps your child is indeed ASD. It's just that some parents have children who also have 'symptoms ' of ASD but aren't ASD. I think there is a lot of confusion as to who is ASD and who isn't sometimes. That's all the other PP is saying.

ASD can not be turned off...a child behaving typically at home but ASD at school. It just doesn't work that way. ASD is a very serious neurological disorder. It can't mask itself as neurotypical in one setting, ASD in another. ASD children, i.e. Aspergers, will still say or act inappropriately with adults even at times.

I'm the OP.

It's just hard to figure out what my own child has really. And sometimes treatments are dependent on the dx. [/quote]

An ASD doesn't turn itself off but when kids are high functioning it is absolutely different at home and at school.  At home we accommodate our children, consciously or not.  A child who has trouble reading nonverbal cues will have parents who have -- probably unconsciously -- taught that child to read their own cues while at the same time finding other ways to communicate.  Here's an example: when my DS was young if I yelled his name, he wouldn't answer.  he saw no reason to.  But when I yelled a question "are you up there?"  Or "can you come down for dinner?" he would answer, because it was a question.  Even before he had a diagnosis, I learned to communicate in that manner and didn't think twice about it.  Thats a small example, but repeat it over every exchange and interaction.

Then send the same child to school where, first of all, the social demands increase substantially.  They are around a lot of people, participating in group activities.  They have to read nonverbal cues from a number of strangers and they have to pay attention to the teacher's instructions.  It is intuitive for NT kids to pay attention to what the teacher has to say.  When my DS started school, bright as he was, he saw no reason why he should look at the teacher as opposed to look at the cabinet door hinge, which was actually more appealing because it was less confusing.

So just imagine the difference in behavior between these two situations.  I think it can feed a parent's denial to think that a child has to behave the same at school and at home in order to have an ASD.  Thats like saying a person should communicate equally in the US and in a country that speaks an entirely unknown language.[/quote]

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