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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 182533" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>My son scored a little less than yours and he is Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD). It is very hard to get the diagnosis, even if it's OBVIOUS. I don't know why. It took my son until 11 to get the diagnosis. But we had been forcing Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) interventions since before he was two. I mean...he spoke late, he echoed, he pottied late, he had an early interest in letters, numbers, and memorization. He did was so frustrated he'd have horrible tantrums. He did have some stims (not a lot). He seemed to socialize all right with other kids, although he often played by himself, and he didn't line up his toys...But we had a gut feeling, we KNEW. And the older he got the MORE obvious it was...even though we suffered through wrong diagnoses of ADHD/ODD/bipolar and a slew of medications that did not address his issues. He had none of them. He has Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)-not otherwise specified and, in his case, he is very high functioning AND medication free now! And better off for being medication free. Everyone kept trying to fix it with just medications--if we hadn't insisted on interventions he wouldn't have gotten any, would have just been constantly medicated. Sad that some professionals just do not understand high functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) as opposed to ADHD and/or bipolar.</p><p>You may want to take him to a neuropsychologist. The first neuropsychologist we saw said "autistic tendencies" , but mostly bipolar. Baloney. But my son was only six at the time, atypically autistic, and the testing wasn't really that thorough--only four hours long, which in my opinion is not long enough.</p><p>Truly, only a thorough second neuropsychologist evaluation helped us. This guy tested our son for TEN hours and would not tell us a diagnosis until the end. I believe a neuropsychologist exam will get you an Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) diagnosis if he has it (and he scored quite high on the test).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 182533, member: 1550"] My son scored a little less than yours and he is Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD). It is very hard to get the diagnosis, even if it's OBVIOUS. I don't know why. It took my son until 11 to get the diagnosis. But we had been forcing Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) interventions since before he was two. I mean...he spoke late, he echoed, he pottied late, he had an early interest in letters, numbers, and memorization. He did was so frustrated he'd have horrible tantrums. He did have some stims (not a lot). He seemed to socialize all right with other kids, although he often played by himself, and he didn't line up his toys...But we had a gut feeling, we KNEW. And the older he got the MORE obvious it was...even though we suffered through wrong diagnoses of ADHD/ODD/bipolar and a slew of medications that did not address his issues. He had none of them. He has Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)-not otherwise specified and, in his case, he is very high functioning AND medication free now! And better off for being medication free. Everyone kept trying to fix it with just medications--if we hadn't insisted on interventions he wouldn't have gotten any, would have just been constantly medicated. Sad that some professionals just do not understand high functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) as opposed to ADHD and/or bipolar. You may want to take him to a neuropsychologist. The first neuropsychologist we saw said "autistic tendencies" , but mostly bipolar. Baloney. But my son was only six at the time, atypically autistic, and the testing wasn't really that thorough--only four hours long, which in my opinion is not long enough. Truly, only a thorough second neuropsychologist evaluation helped us. This guy tested our son for TEN hours and would not tell us a diagnosis until the end. I believe a neuropsychologist exam will get you an Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) diagnosis if he has it (and he scored quite high on the test). [/QUOTE]
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