Living with an autistic sister

Hello.

I'm new here and I'm really looking for somewhere I can talk about my younger sister who is currently going through the system of being tested for autism. I don't know lots about autism, I know there is the autistic spectrum and that there are lots of different types of autism. We are not sure what type of autism my sister has but I think it might be aspergers.

I don't know really how the whole "autistim testing" thing works and so I wondered if anyone could explain to me all the different stages and what happens when or anything really? All that has happened with us so far is that my mum asked a lady who is a family support worker to come and talk to us. She comes and sees my sister everyweek and she has spoke to my mum, my dad and me as well. Last week she showed my mum a report about my sister and she is going to pass it onto someone who is going to review it to see if my sister is autistic or not. I think its like that anyway.

Im a thirteen year old girl and I find it really hard to cope with my ten year old sister. She is really stubborn, she doesn't seem to be able to emphaise at all, she can be incredibly self- centered, she gets upset at the smallest thing, she hates crowded places, she doesn't like loud noises and says they hurt her ears, however she can also hear really well and can hear things from very far away, she doesn't get sarcastic remarks, she doesn't get sayings for example:

My sister: " How long now?"

Mum: "I don't know how long is a piece of string?"

My sister: "That doesn't make sense!!"

That is only a few of the things she does and I'm sorry it's quite vague and there are probably a million spelling mistakes. However it's a sunday and I have homework to do.

Thanks.