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Anonymous wrote:How was he diagnosed at 2.5 without language or cognitive differences? Kids that age do not play with other kids, it’s almost all parallel play.

There are specific clinical criteria for that age and even earlier. A trained clinician can certainly diagnose at 2.5. Cognitive differences are not always present in ASD and are not a diagnostic marker for ASD. Sounds like you don't know much about it.

+1. And many kids who are 2 want to play with other kids in a more substantive way than parallel play. My 3.5 year old played with a 1 year 11 month old yesterday (family friends' child) and it was not parallel play. The 1 year 11 month old is pretty advanced and my three year old was explaining things to him and there was a real back-and-forth. And my three year old regularly plays with my 13 month old. I'm not saying that children at 2.5 do not do parallel play, but instead that your experience with your child is not applicable to all children.

Anonymous wrote:How was he diagnosed at 2.5 without language or cognitive differences? Kids that age do not play with other kids, it’s almost all parallel play.

There are specific clinical criteria for that age and even earlier. A trained clinician can certainly diagnose at 2.5. Cognitive differences are not always present in ASD and are not a diagnostic marker for ASD. Sounds like you don't know much about it.

I have a success story. I have an adhd/ possible asd kid and as such have leaned so much more about the signs and symptoms of both. A cousin I haven’t seen for years came over on Friday bc he was in the us on business - and I realized he is almost definitely on the spectrum. He squirmed and found it hard to make conversation or eye contact, he took things completely literally, he missed social cues (I could go on). He also was lovely and quite funny, successful in his engineering career and has 3 kids and a good marriage. My kid is probably ahead of this 42 year old man socially in some ways - and it gave me a lot of hope for the future

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Anonymous wrote:Yes my nephew has don’t great and is now in 2nd grad3 at public school, no accommodations, very good at math and video games, and sometimes blows up at a sibling. They have to pick their battles on what to discipline, it mainly if he touches or throws something at others. It hasn’t happened at school, to my knowledge. we have watched him and we know if we need to go over something we quiet the room, look him in the eye, make him apologize and have a consequence (no ipad time).
He had animal care therapy too which helped. Lots of socialization via the parents and community

NP. What is animal care therapy?

Their insurance covered it and in two states he had worked with horses- grooming them, keeping them calm, riding, feeding.

Basically how to care for an animal/ think of not yourself.

Sounds like a money grab.

How was he diagnosed at 2.5 without language or cognitive differences? Kids that age do not play with other kids, it’s almost all parallel play.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes my nephew has don’t great and is now in 2nd grad3 at public school, no accommodations, very good at math and video games, and sometimes blows up at a sibling. They have to pick their battles on what to discipline, it mainly if he touches or throws something at others. It hasn’t happened at school, to my knowledge. we have watched him and we know if we need to go over something we quiet the room, look him in the eye, make him apologize and have a consequence (no ipad time).
He had animal care therapy too which helped. Lots of socialization via the parents and community

NP. What is animal care therapy?

Their insurance covered it and in two states he had worked with horses- grooming them, keeping them calm, riding, feeding.

Basically how to care for an animal/ think of not yourself.