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PLEASE HELP CALM NERVES AFTER EVALUATION

PLEASE HELP CALM NERVES AFTER EVALUATION

Hello,

My 5 year old just completed his evaluation testing this past Friday. I truely believe that he has Asperger's but I am very nervous about the outcome.  Please keep in mind that I'm not looking for something to be "wrong" with my kid, but when you love your child so much and you know something is different, you just want that diagnosis to get him the help he needs, know what I mean?

Anyways, the psychologist who evaluated him at Children's Hospital stated that they all fell in love with him because he has such a magnetic personality with adults.  She is on the fence though and we will not know until she scores all of the sheets we filled out. She says she's not sure if he is on the autism spectrum mildly and has another underlying condition such as ADD/ADHD or if he has a mild case of ADD/ADHD and is "quirky".

Now, this is making me nervous because I thought that the very definition of Aspergers is that they are very high functioning on the autism spectrum.  Therefore in a "safe" one-on-one evaluation with adults the symptoms may not show.

Am I overthinking this?  Did this happen to any of you (not showing in one-on-one but MUCH more obvious in a group setting with peers? or on the parent scoring sheets)

I am so scared we are going to get an answer that nothing is wrong and we'll back to square one!
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