high functioning autism

[bubblagirl]

most of you will know me already as my ds has speech disorder

well we had our assessments today and he has been diagnosed with high functioning autism

not to sure what to expect or how im feeling at moment guess i just want to hear from others in same situation as me

as all of a sudden i feel so alone had convinced myself just speech delay and now i know its not

You are right Duchesse. I taught a boy diagnosed with autism in his reception year. He did indeed find the transition to school very hard but we put in place everything we could to help him. After 2 terms he was a different boy and certainly an onlooker would never think he was autistic. Personally I think you could say he still displays some autistic traits at times, mainly when facing changes to his daily routines etcetera....but for the majority of the time he adapted really well to school life.
Would love to meet up to feed the ducks bubblagirl. Shall we wait for the nice weather again?

One of our friends who has a son quite far into the AS reckons that Asperger's is merely extreme maleness. I should say that probably upwards of 30% of the people at my university (students and dons) would be somewhere on the AS. I would imagine that only person is severely aspergic or wishes to pursue a career in the meedja would they have real problems. Also, bear in mind that we are ALL somewhere on the autistic spectrum. It's not a cut a dried thing like a chromosomal abnormality (although even then there are degrees of expression- it's just more quantifiable)

thnaks marne hiope all goes well with your dd took me a yr to get any help so at least you will be seen alot earlier for help hope all goes ok xx

keevamum we will wait for warmer weather shouldnt be too far away ds is at pre school on a mon and thur morn but could meet after or any other day

he will be going to snap group but that would also be a mon and thur so still leaves other days free

as to the diagnosis while he has one he has the help needed and if all turns out ok at least the help would have reached his goal quicker than i can do alone

i would like to think maybe its wrong but too many people have noticed and not wanted to tell me until diagnosis was made so i know that somewhere it is right although maybe not severe only mild

im just glad he will now be helped as so far behind his peers

as for the extreme maleness thing that was mentioned this morning as men seem to only worry about themselves dont worry too much about your emotions only seem to have one tone do what they want to do lol sounds like ds dad lol

sorry for typos i dont seem to do well typing quick lol

duchesse that really depends on how the AS is expressed, it can be quite severe if the Paed diagnosed by followimg guidelines rather than using as a term for mild asd, which some people see it as.

the official criteria are:

AS- asd traits no language delay

HFA- ASD traits, language delay, average to high IQ

ASD- ASD traits, low IQ

DS1 swings from an AS to HFA dx (Paed dx helpfully is HFA / AS!), on meeting him he can seem normal but he has exreme behavioural difficulties to the extent where we may have to consider boarding school at some stage .

I have noticed the services here increasingly shying away from asd at all, and using different classifications such as pragmaticcommunication disoreder, ass they can be more accurate.