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In my experience, there are a lot of moving parts to this issue. The best thing you can do for your child is to treat whatever symptoms they have, and get a differential diagnosis. A differential diagnosis has every diagnosis on the table, instead of just running through the autism checklist.

Because the truth is, running through an autism checklist from the DSM 5 will get most children with special needs an ASD diagnosis.  If they are high functioning, then their disability will cause social issues and their intelligence about their state will make them anxious, leaving them with repetitive behaviors. And if they are low functioning, then they won't be able to connect socially and will be anxious about their surroundings and as a way to cope with all repetitive behaviors.  So the blind child now has ASD, the Down's child now has ASD, the CDLs child now has ASD. (There's a laziness about following the severity levels, too. Every person on the planet would be Level 1 according to how some doctors diagnose "repetitive behaviours." )

And with ASD comes insurance coverage, also contributing to the autism boom.

If your child is verbal, OP, the ADOS can help sort out issues. But if your child has a language disorder, the ADOS is not the best test.

In reality, a diagnosis should look at underlying causes.

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This post is all over the place, mixing and matching unrelated issues, and full of exaggerations,  half truths and meaningless statements.[/quote]

No, its not.  Kids who were previously diagnosed with cognitive issues are now ASD as are many others.  Its very true even if you don't want to believe it.[/quote]
Ok, but that's not what you said, you are just adding another issue to the mess.[/quote]

I am the earlier poster and this is exactly what I said.  The PP gets it.

I am 60. In my circle of friends 3 have children with ASD who are now in their late teens. When I was a kid, every one of those kids would have been labeled with the old term "mentally retarded."

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That's because they were misdiagnosing kids with normal IQs and writing them off.  Now we have better diagnosis and give them services.[/quote]

This-my elderly dad had a cousin (now deceased) who was nonverbal. In those days, the school just told his parents-he doesn't talk, he is retarded (their word) so he can't go to school anymore. He taught himself to read and was brilliant with math, but no one understood what was going on and he never did have a paid job or move out. [/quote]

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