I can’t say I was warm to the diagnostic process, I certainly didn’t ask for one but we wound up with a diagnosis but and we’ve muddled through.
Three years on there’s still a few people who are obsessed by the are they/ aren’t they!
One woman apparently works with children, I presume young and severe, and watches like she’s doing a professional observation and interrupts other topics with comment like ‘look, eye contact to thank someone!’. I’ve spent time teaching dd skills and she’s learnt some. Yes. I end up wanting to slap her after half an hour. I’ve asked her to stop a few times and I avoid her now but occasionally at something like a party we’ll end up near each other. Dd has no LD and can learn skills and is getting bigger so isn’t non verbal or hiding under tables anymore...
Another likes to tell people that dd doesn’t have it for xxx reason. As in new mutual friends I wouldn’t have told at all.
It does my nut in. There’s nothing else that people get so damn nosey over. I haven’t even told people in the last few years as it bugs me that much