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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS's late and surprising autism diagnosis followed by multiple severe regressions that stole his words and his future. He was my sweet and easy second child.

He is nine now and severely handicapped. I have moments of grief and overwhelm everyday but they don't last as long as they used to. Minutes instead of days. We still have a lot of joy and many things to be grateful for, and I try to focus on that. I was a philosophy major in college and somehow that has helped me with this experience.[/quote]
I'm sorry, PP. May I ask what was so surprising about your child's diagnosis? Did you not suspect it at all?[/quote]

Nope. I have a brother on the spectrum so it's not like I wasn't aware. He was a "late talker" but did have words, was social, played well and there were no other red flag behaviors. We called him our little "club promoter" because he was so social and happy and in the mix whenever there were people around. The first time anyone even said the word autism to us he was 3.5 and it took two more years and maybe 20 specialists before he was formally diagnosed but there were several regressions during that time. Today he has limited language and all of the behaviors and no one would debate the diagnosis. But I don't think our experience is very typical.[/quote]

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