Our DS (8) is coping mostly so well that we haven’t ever discussed with him that he may have high funtioning autism or looked into it.
However his anxieties are suddenly a problem at the moment, mainly in terms of getting him into school or going somewhere new as as soon as he’s there it sounds like he’s ok.
I am now at the stage of thinking that it would help to get him some help but I don’t know how to best help his anxieties and most people never understand him the way we do so I don’t know where to start?
He is extremely conscious of germs/ contamination and associating these with school as he doesn’t catch bugs at home generally . So this is the main issue we need to help and I don’t know where to start, whether he can have help with anxiety or whether there’s any benefit to looking into whether he has autism. He otherwise enjoys school now and has good friends