Hi all,
So we are currently undergoing diagnosis for our son who is 22 months. We are yet to see the paediatrician but luckily have a consultant clinical psychologist in the family who has basically screened and observed him several times and concluded highly likely he has ASD.
When she last visited she did say he was showing behaviours that made her question that opinion though. Such as him being able to follow a request of fetching his bottle that's in another room. He understand that request and will often do it.... many times he won't thiugh!
However despite saying that she did go on to say she's still 90% sure it's autism due to lots of other things he does that suggest autism (the usual : stims , tip toes walking, gazes into thin air for ages like he's zoning out, speech regression, severe violent meltdowns.... )
I asked if it could possibly be aspergers but she's said it's more likely autism as he has no real Interest in interaction with others- he never really seeks it, very occasionally he will share something with me in a book he's looking at or something but generally he's happier playing solitary.
So my question is what other differences are there if any between HFA and aspergers ?? Does anyone here have/ had a toddler with HFA who's outgrowing many of their traits? I've always thought aspergers was more functioning of the two but according to her it is not... people with aspergers can present many difficulties like those with asd. I suppose I'm just curious to hear from those of you who have kids with HFA/ aspergers and what they were / are like at around toddler years ? TIA. :)
I'm sorry for waffling on.