The assessment itself was a bit awkward- some questions didn't apply (and a blip demonstrated to us all that DS1 has OCD so we need to look at that in addition to his AS) and there were a few issues with the data package itself as some questions were a bit hard to understand even for the Paed, and some questions it insisted on answers to were just way above his head in terms of the ability it expected- and at one point it stopped highlighting questions at all and the Paed was confused.
However, once working it gave DS3 a firm diagnosis of 'PDD with ASD' and the Paed is going to write to school / LEA to confirm. It is a good package for defining concepts when it comes to kids like DS3 who have a few non-ASD tendencies; narrows things down a bit iykwim?
I have this feeling that I should be mortified- but apart from severe nausea immeiately after DX, I don't feel anything has changed much; we knew this all along. But we knew it with Sam too so I am expecting it to hit me like a hammer at any point- I reckon Christmas day? or maybe when its in writing. I did get a bit upset at the Nativity when he was next to all his peers, but I blamed that on the baby crying as an excuse to pop out.
Apparently I have to look at Earlybird plus, and SS (boo hiss) will drop in eeeek. Again. As helpful as ever no doubt