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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, thank you for this.  Someone in my extended family is dealing with a surprise diagnosis about her son. (IMO--which I know doesn't matter, but just for purposes of responding to your post--the kid is NT, just a boy and slower to develop his speech.)

It's worth getting a second opinion when your kid is concerned.[/quote]

Tell them to focus on speech therapy.  If it isn't autism, it will tease itself between 4-6, when the kids start to speak.  Basics, even eye contact, will come when the receptive and expressive language comes.  Kids can't be social well if they don't have speech or understanding of speech.[/quote]

Ok.  It's very bizarre that there is this diagnosis.  The kid (who is young!)  looks you in the eye and follows directions and everything.  His speech is garbled (like gibberish) but he clearly has the cadence, and seems to have no social issues.  It's as if you are talking to a kid in English, and he understands you, but responds in a language you don't understand.  That may be something, but I don't think it's autism.  (but I don't have expertise in SN)[/quote]

Gosh, you are that nightmare relative we all have... The one who knows better than the parents and the experts and insists on saying "he'll grow out of it". Please, butt out! 
FWIW, the boy sounds just like my son, who seemed to have no social issues and talked gibberish at first. A year later, it's so much clearer to others, not just us, that the diagnosis was correct. [/quote]

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