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Mild ASD

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Hi 

Need some guidance to help our 7 year old daughter with possible Mild ASD. 

When our daughter is 3-4 years, she went through SALT and ASD assessment and as she showed some progress she is discharged at that time. And the pediatrician said she is at the border of ASD and may need further assessment when struggling with social situations. Now she is 7 and we have noticed believe she is struggling in school in keeping with other children.   

She exhibits behaviors like Repetitive questioning, Difficulties in social communication and making and keeping friends, relies on other children, copy other children, trouble in focusing and Anxiety etc. so school SENCO is arranging for ASD assessment. While we are waiting for ASD assessment am I look for some guidance /suggestions from Parents who went through a similar situation and what steps we need to take to help her. 

Thank you 

Best Regards 

Jack

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  • yes i agree with the other person. there is no such thing as a bit autistic. i've met enough autistic people to know this! 

    i know you are worried about your kid, so i just want to explain these "behaviours" from an autistic perspective.

    the autistic view, which many professionals now take, is that autism is not inherently negative, in any way. autism is a valid unique nuerotype, which means that the person "with autism" has a different brain and nervous system to the majority of people "nuerotypicals".

    this means that the person will behave differently to "nuerotypicals", their entire body is wired significantly differently. they experience and interact with with the world differently as a result. and communicate differently.

    in particular, these differences are much more noticeable when the person is around other people their age. it is very traumatic to be in a classroom full of people who experience and communicate differently (i know this from first hand experience). it makes the person feel like they are broken; and very left out, and that leads to "masking" or imitating nuerotypical peers. the problem with this is, it is primarily a trauma response (it is sometimes called autistic camaflouging).

    autistic people need to be in a school which is designed for autistic peoples needs. and one which sees autism in a positive context while acknowledging the challenges it brings. where most or all pupils are autistic. 

    eonstien, bill gates, steve jobs and elon musk are all certainly autistic. autistic people are the biggest contributors to societies progress. are most autistic people geniuses - no - but autism always comes with gifts, mostly creative or technical, which more than make up for its challenges (imo!)

    there is no "cure" for autistic people- and never will be - try replacing someone's nervous system. the nhs has some clear articles saying this.

    the biggest challenge of being autistic is not autism- rather person - environment mismatch - where most environments are designed with nuerotypical people in mind, leading to constant trauma of not having sensory and social needs met.

    the repetitive behaviour is called stimming and regulates the sensory and emotional nervous system. it is similar to the way not autistic people breathe.

    this is what i wanted to tell you.

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  • yes i agree with the other person. there is no such thing as a bit autistic. i've met enough autistic people to know this! 

    i know you are worried about your kid, so i just want to explain these "behaviours" from an autistic perspective.

    the autistic view, which many professionals now take, is that autism is not inherently negative, in any way. autism is a valid unique nuerotype, which means that the person "with autism" has a different brain and nervous system to the majority of people "nuerotypicals".

    this means that the person will behave differently to "nuerotypicals", their entire body is wired significantly differently. they experience and interact with with the world differently as a result. and communicate differently.

    in particular, these differences are much more noticeable when the person is around other people their age. it is very traumatic to be in a classroom full of people who experience and communicate differently (i know this from first hand experience). it makes the person feel like they are broken; and very left out, and that leads to "masking" or imitating nuerotypical peers. the problem with this is, it is primarily a trauma response (it is sometimes called autistic camaflouging).

    autistic people need to be in a school which is designed for autistic peoples needs. and one which sees autism in a positive context while acknowledging the challenges it brings. where most or all pupils are autistic. 

    eonstien, bill gates, steve jobs and elon musk are all certainly autistic. autistic people are the biggest contributors to societies progress. are most autistic people geniuses - no - but autism always comes with gifts, mostly creative or technical, which more than make up for its challenges (imo!)

    there is no "cure" for autistic people- and never will be - try replacing someone's nervous system. the nhs has some clear articles saying this.

    the biggest challenge of being autistic is not autism- rather person - environment mismatch - where most environments are designed with nuerotypical people in mind, leading to constant trauma of not having sensory and social needs met.

    the repetitive behaviour is called stimming and regulates the sensory and emotional nervous system. it is similar to the way not autistic people breathe.

    this is what i wanted to tell you.

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