3.5 year old son diagnosed today

Hi all,

my 3.5 year old son received his autism diagnosis today. He has many of the symptoms and we had concerns from when he was just over a year old. Even though we knew it, it is difficult to hear and it brings lots of worries about his future.

my son is verbal but minimal social communication, never instigates conversations or asks questions, mainly just labelling things. He has difficulty understanding instructions and is therefore prone to tantrums etc.  He loves numbers and shapes. He’s has speech and language therapy for over a year which has brought his speech on but still his main vocabulary is 1 or 2 word requests. 

just thought I’d reach out as I’m sure many on here share similar experiences and hopefully some of you have come out the other side and are in a more positive frame of mind.

M