Well, this is my first post on this topic and I'm hoping you can halp. Thing is, over the years and more recently, my sister has asked me if I think her ds1 is autistic. I don't think he is but I don't "know", I have nothing to base that on. So I thought I'd check with you guys who have a great deal more knowledge on this than I do.
The reasons she worries are that he's often in a daydream, She often tells him to snap out of it,he finds it hard to concentrate (he's 10 btw), gets easily very upset by small things, is prone to crying alot about small things. Educationaly, he's bright with his maths, struggles more with his English. He's very good with music, reads it v. well and up to grade 4 with clarinet. He loves and is good at computor games. She worries mainly about his concentation skills and moving onto Secondary school and potentialy being bullied if he can't control how upset he gets about things.
Is he just an average lad of 10, could he have got to 10 with no one in the Ed. system noticing if there was a problem? What do you think?