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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know it's exhausting.  Over the years, I didn't think it was autism, but I kept expecting that diagnosis.  We knew about speech and motor issues early on.  Did therapy (and continue).  The ADHD was the next diagnosis and didn't come as a surprise.  Have added in more social support and (now meds b/c school was becoming impossible).

I've met so many kids both girls and boys with autism and not on the spectrum the years at therapy, at school, at social skill groups.  Truly the kids are individuals.  I do see commonalities with my kid--like anxiety, sometimes quick to over-react, sometimes rigid, the difficulty with executive functions or in socializing.

[b]I just wanted to mention that DCD can make a kid seem a little out of sync with peers b/c it affects processing and reaction speeds.  If you do get a neuropsychological evaluation, make sure the person has experience with this b/c it can affect testing.  GL[[/b]/quote]

Yes, I'm really wondering if it's more of this going on than ASD. The SLP who suggested it could be ASD to us is the only one to do so, and only evaluated her in the context of her pragmatic language. In that isolated environment, I can see how maybe she would think that, but so much of how my DD functions day to day in her normal world and interacts with peers makes it hard for me to think it's ASD and not just "aftershocks" of the DCD. I think DCD is affecting her pragmatic language which is making things like reading sarcasm and noticing subtlety hard for her... not necessarily that she's ASD and not capable of registering those. The SLP who suggested the neuropsych specifically suggested I get it done at one place because they have expertise in girls with ASD and how it presents... which could be good, but I'm also sort of concerned if that's what they go in thinking, they may miss the DCD component and how it could be affecting things.

Then again, although I know my kid, I don't know brains and neuropyschology, so who am I to say  :lol: [/quote]

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