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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP with a highly socially challenged kid who even with that doesn’t officially meet the ASD diagnosis.

I don’t understand how a kid who supposedly has a disorder which is primarily marked by an inability to read social cues can by age six adopt a sufficient number of social behaviors to fly under the radar. Makes no sense to me. And so many posters on here who announce that a diagnostician finally figured out that their MS or Hs kid has ASD. Again, as the parent of a kid who is highly compromised socially, this doesn’t make sense to me.[/quote]

My kid was diagnosed at age 5. At the time she was diagnosed, it was obvious to the evaluator but not to a casual observer, including her nursery school teachers (when she was 3-4). It's not that she was so adept at masking or had adopted sufficient behavior -- it's that the social expectations for 3, 4, 5 year olds are sufficiently low and social dynamics simple enough that differences/difficulties aren't immediately obvious.

My kid is a teenager now and in some ways she has learned more about expected social behavior (she no longer throws herself on the floor crying in public, she's memorized how to make small talk with adults). But in other ways, the social gap between herself and her peers has grown larger. So I can see that some kids' social differences wouldn't be obvious until they got older.[/quote]

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