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Waiting for Diagnosis

Cathy13

My Grandson had his multidisciplinary assesment yesterday. At the end of it, the main doctor told my Daughter about all the appointmens that were going to be made to finish assesing him and that it should all be finished by the end of July. She also said that, from what they had observed so far, it was leaning towards Autism.  Do you think that they already know and are trying to give my Daughter time to come to terms with it?  Thanks for any help or advice.

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  • Hmm

    He is still a lovely boy of 30 months ago and Autism will not alter that at all.

    I don't quite see how they know in one so young but that is for those Assessing to decide and what isn't being discussed here.

    Why should your daughter need to work at coming to terms with it. She taken him for the Assessments etc and that alone goes along way to her dealing with her reaction on it here.

    I think if you read a vareity of accounts on here you may find a mixed reaction. It seems the older we are the more we see our diagnosis a positive thing happening to us. Finally someone is understanding what we are about. It the posts parents and their families put that seem to think it is a no go area and devasting news. It really isn't you know. It is very helpful that children can be diagnosed so young because then they can grow up with stratergies in place where as similar to the other two adults here I was only diagnosed two year ago at the age of 45 after never quite being able to do things in life etc. At least your grandson will get all the help he needs, hopefully and live the life he wants to live rather than everyone thinking the worst.

    The autism label is a good lable as people around him will learn how to help him when he needs their help :-)

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  • Hmm

    He is still a lovely boy of 30 months ago and Autism will not alter that at all.

    I don't quite see how they know in one so young but that is for those Assessing to decide and what isn't being discussed here.

    Why should your daughter need to work at coming to terms with it. She taken him for the Assessments etc and that alone goes along way to her dealing with her reaction on it here.

    I think if you read a vareity of accounts on here you may find a mixed reaction. It seems the older we are the more we see our diagnosis a positive thing happening to us. Finally someone is understanding what we are about. It the posts parents and their families put that seem to think it is a no go area and devasting news. It really isn't you know. It is very helpful that children can be diagnosed so young because then they can grow up with stratergies in place where as similar to the other two adults here I was only diagnosed two year ago at the age of 45 after never quite being able to do things in life etc. At least your grandson will get all the help he needs, hopefully and live the life he wants to live rather than everyone thinking the worst.

    The autism label is a good lable as people around him will learn how to help him when he needs their help :-)

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