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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I mean, there are lots of six year olds that struggle with social cues, and most of them aren't autistic.  So it's not that hard for the autistic ones to fly under the radar until they're older and most of their peers have become much more socially sophisticated and they haven't.  [/quote]

+1 This is particularly common if they are girls. [b]Autistic girls on average struggle less than autistic boys when they are younger and more than autistic boys when they are older[/b].[/quote]

DP.  I have heard that first part, that autistic girls struggle less than autistic boys.  I haven't heard the second part, that they struggle more than autistic boys when they are older.  I'm not sure I've seen that in my anecdotal experience.  Can you elaborate?[/quote]

It was mentioned in the Donna Henderson podcast I have posted on this thread twice. 
I also just googled the following:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34080460/

Feel free to do your own research.[/quote]

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