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Hi all. I need some advice about my 11 year old daughter. 

Inmy family, we have always noticed she is quirky but of late, this quirkiness is becoming more apparent and worrying. She suffered from tics a year ago, so much so I thought she may have Tourette's. This waxed and waned for a while and now has virtually gone.

Since she was small, she won't wear buttons, I've recently discovered its because people will see her wearing them, not she doesn't like them. She also seems to have echolalia (repeating phrases from t.v. Or people) 

She comes home from school and sometimes just shouts out random noise as if she's been holding it in. She has no real self awareness, will get in your face, not angrily. Doesn't get jokes or sarcasm. No real bond with family besides me. She can be in her own little world, humming grimacing general noise making. Gets very excited and animated over food. Always wanting to eat and remembers people by the food they ate, eg. Oh, I remember her, she had a jam sandwich. If anyone eating loudly she shouts and leaves the room. There's more but I won't go on.

She does well in school and they have no concerns tho whenever they go out or on a bus,  she always seems to be the one walking on her own, while the others are paired up (not through her choice). also, the older she gets the more her immaturity is showing, can't say she has changed since at least 8 years old

Could she have ASD. Any advice would be great :) 

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  • I felt different from about the age of 10, but the teachers and parents had concerns since I was three. I did not start feeling negative about my differences, or began analysing them critically, until I was 13 years old. I was a very happy child, blithely un-self-aware, content with being me.

    As a teenager, my parents suggested I was a bit autistic, and I was adament that I there was nothing 'wrong' with me, despite not being able to maintain friendships, having extreme interests and obsessions etc.

    I was reluctant about accepting I had difficulties, until it all came to a head when I had a massive tantrum - age 19 - when my parents were talking during a TV programme I was trying to watch. They told me that I had to see psychological help or my Kate Winslet DVDs would be confiscated - I had an extreme obsession with the actress. I had CBT therapy, and this led to me getting a referral for an autism assessment and subsequent diagnosis. Prior to the assessment, during it, and after diagnosis, I was really interested in all aspects of autism as I now wanted to understand myself.

     

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  • I felt different from about the age of 10, but the teachers and parents had concerns since I was three. I did not start feeling negative about my differences, or began analysing them critically, until I was 13 years old. I was a very happy child, blithely un-self-aware, content with being me.

    As a teenager, my parents suggested I was a bit autistic, and I was adament that I there was nothing 'wrong' with me, despite not being able to maintain friendships, having extreme interests and obsessions etc.

    I was reluctant about accepting I had difficulties, until it all came to a head when I had a massive tantrum - age 19 - when my parents were talking during a TV programme I was trying to watch. They told me that I had to see psychological help or my Kate Winslet DVDs would be confiscated - I had an extreme obsession with the actress. I had CBT therapy, and this led to me getting a referral for an autism assessment and subsequent diagnosis. Prior to the assessment, during it, and after diagnosis, I was really interested in all aspects of autism as I now wanted to understand myself.

     

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