Mariette
Mom of Aspie
Hi everyone!
I'm in a bit of a tricky situation. I hope I will be welcomed here, even though I am unsure of whether I really belong. Let me explain.
My son, now four years old, have been showing some unsusual behaviour more or less for the past two years now. Little things that could easily be written off as "he's just strong-minded" or "tired children are prone to tantrums" or "all children develop at their own pace, he'll start speaking in sentences soon enough".
But I started to suspect that there could be an underlying "something" that is the cause of all of these things. I suspected something like Aspergers and when I start to read up on it, so many symptoms matched up! But there are also some major symptoms described by the websites that my son doesn't have. He is highly functional and to anyone who meets him, he appears very "normal", but there are still those small things that we know about and the outside world only catch glimpes of.
So I mentioned this to his pediatrician during his last visit, and he recommended an "Asperger's Screening Test" with a vocational therapist and speech therapist. After this screening test, they told me that he does "fall into the Aspergers profile", but that because he is so highly functional, they don't recommend a formal diagnosis, because that woudl "just put a label on him". But they do recommend starting with therapy right away to rectify where he has fallen behind on his development.
At this time, registering on this site, I am now waiting for my next appointment at the pediatrician after he has evaluated their report and then we will decide on a way forward.
I am glad that my son is highly functional and without a formal diagnosis, I don't even know if he would really be on the spectrum at all, but I do know that he exhibits some of the same symptoms.
So therefore I am in a tricky situation. My child is a borderline case, which makes it very difficult to distinguish when he is just "being naughty" and when he is becoming hysterical about something because he just can't help it.
I will be posting my questions, because I have a lot to ask!
I'm in a bit of a tricky situation. I hope I will be welcomed here, even though I am unsure of whether I really belong. Let me explain.
My son, now four years old, have been showing some unsusual behaviour more or less for the past two years now. Little things that could easily be written off as "he's just strong-minded" or "tired children are prone to tantrums" or "all children develop at their own pace, he'll start speaking in sentences soon enough".
But I started to suspect that there could be an underlying "something" that is the cause of all of these things. I suspected something like Aspergers and when I start to read up on it, so many symptoms matched up! But there are also some major symptoms described by the websites that my son doesn't have. He is highly functional and to anyone who meets him, he appears very "normal", but there are still those small things that we know about and the outside world only catch glimpes of.
So I mentioned this to his pediatrician during his last visit, and he recommended an "Asperger's Screening Test" with a vocational therapist and speech therapist. After this screening test, they told me that he does "fall into the Aspergers profile", but that because he is so highly functional, they don't recommend a formal diagnosis, because that woudl "just put a label on him". But they do recommend starting with therapy right away to rectify where he has fallen behind on his development.
At this time, registering on this site, I am now waiting for my next appointment at the pediatrician after he has evaluated their report and then we will decide on a way forward.
I am glad that my son is highly functional and without a formal diagnosis, I don't even know if he would really be on the spectrum at all, but I do know that he exhibits some of the same symptoms.
So therefore I am in a tricky situation. My child is a borderline case, which makes it very difficult to distinguish when he is just "being naughty" and when he is becoming hysterical about something because he just can't help it.
I will be posting my questions, because I have a lot to ask!
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