My son

[mum2beagain]

My son has a diagnosis of autism however socially he did not fall within the diagnostic criteria for autism, he has good eye contact, is loving and plays with other children (although his play skills are delayed). He does how ever display repetitive and stim behaviours and although verbal he has language difficulties specifically with conversation and is often echolaic. There were enough issues to give him a diagnosis of ASD. It's a myth that children with autism are not social or loving, some are some aren't, my son is a good example of a very social child with many other autistic traits.


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[mjthewriterdad]

Autism is a spectrum disorder. It runs a RANGE of symptoms.  If not all the checklist items are checked off, then we fall into another category, then another and so on.  Maybe if what's left over shows in the NOS (not otherwise specified) category. It still falls somewhere  still on the spectrum.

[mum2beagain]

I'm sorry folks, this wasn't mean't to be a new question, I was trying to post a reply to the thread "second opinion", don't know what happened there!