Published on 12, July, 2020
Can I please ask a question about autism in children, I was trained that autism is invisible, you cannot see it which is why it is hard to diagnose, but I have a friend who works as a support worker for disabled adults, and she is constantly telling my my child’s autism is not as severe as the people she works with, but I do know disabled adults and children who are deaf, and other major disabilities some get diagnosed with Asd, but I wonder is she just thinking this because she is blind to it and thinking those people she works with she associated their disabilities with Asd how people should look, I find it very difficult at times when I feel she is advising me, my lil boy doesn’t speak and uses pecs but she feels his needs r not great at all, I feel she is blind to his appearance and doesn’t understand what we go through
This is one of the many pages about children upon the official NAS site:
https://www.autism.org.uk/about/diagnosis/children.aspx
...There are a lot of options, and digressions, yet suitably you ask a lot of different questions in your Opening Post, and when it comes to "children", there is a lot of information, and on this NAS page there is a sort of start, anyway. (Maybe.)