Hello, I'm the mum of a 12 year old boy, just been recommended a diagnosis of ASD by CAMHS in our initial appointment and currently waiting for our next appointment to come through. My son's school has been excellent in its SEN provision since he started there 15 months ago. He has good support, but is struggling in a secondary school setting. We have known from nursery that our son exhibited ADS traits, as it was flagged to us several times, but his father (who himself exhibits these traits and will now admit this) was reluctant to get our son seen and, since he works in a school, I trusted his judgement on this and accepted it, as he didn't want our son labelled. It's become apparent over time that in order to help our son, we had to follow the school's recommendation and get him properly assessed. He did so well coping at primary school, it was a small, gentle village school. He is now at a mixed secondary school and really struggles with social behaviour, has some OCD which distresses him, has had a couple of serious incidents where he's become obsessed with another child and followed them around and behaved inappropriately towards them. He is a good, kind, sweet, intelligent boy and I will be relieved, for him, and for our family, to receive the diagnosis. I'm posting here as am extremely new to all this, this is the first Forum I've posted on, and wondered what the best first steps are in terms of building a community of support for my son and for the family. Thanks for any help/replies.