Our wonderful 12yr old son has just been diagnosed with high functioning autism, this has been a long process (2.5) yrs in the waiting. Although I have been prepared for a diagnosis I now feel terribly upset and almost in a feeling of denial, like perhapes they have got this wrong. Is it normal to be in denial, I was told I would probably feel grief. I have so many unanswered questions and feel so scared that I'm doing things wrong. I was told that we will recieve all the paperwork within the next 2wks and that the autism outreach team will go into school, but don't know what this entails. Do we tell the school or wait for the professionals to do it? We haven't even told our son yet as don't know how to approach it correctly with out upsetting him further, he is obviously aware of being assessed, however is expecting a diagnosis of aspergers as this was discussed with him. But due to his language verbal/comprehension difficulties autism is the final conclusion. I just don't know what to do next to best support our wonderful son, if anyone can advise us we would be extremly grateful.
