pixxie1232001
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This is my sons story and I hope you can all share your children's stories as well. My middle child has always been a little different. He never really crawled, he never really talked, mostly babbled, and just in general never showed really interest in anything besides music and being alone. Well fast forward to today, he is 2 1/2 and just a loving little boy full of smiles and laughter. But he still isn't talking. When his 2 year check-up came his doctor expressed concern for it, but I told him he was just a late talker (even though he only said mama and dadda, but just for the sounds nothing else). I shrugged off his other I guess you can say abnormal behavior as being normal for him because that was how he had always had been. After finally reaching 26 months with no progression at all, in fact he had stopped saying mama and dada all together, I reached out to a organization for answers and help. They came out and did their evaluation and agreed that he was a late talker and needed speech therapy, great that is what I wanted, but then they hit me with a bomb shell I never thought I would hear, they said he exhibited a lot of the red flags for Autism Spectrum Disorder. I was shocked as was my husband and we actually got defensive with the worker about the speculation but after she left we did research, and found he did fit a lot of the red flags and always had. Since the initial intake appointment, it has been evaluation after evaluation after evaluation. Each came, played with him, talked with me about their concerns for him because of his behavior and addressed their concerns that he had many of the red flags for autism. Finally, he was assigned a case worker last week. She called and said all the reports were done and was going to mail me a copy of each evaluation. What I got in the mail broke my heart. His speech was comparable to a 10 month old. His congative learning 13 month old, and his motor skills were that of a 18 month old....he is 27 months. I cried. I cried for him and me. He looked at me and he smiled and he laughed his cute hearty laugh, and I smiled. I learned in this last month, with all this, that no matter what they say he has, he is still my little boy. I love him to death and I will do my best to give him all the help he needs. He starts therapy on the 1st and 1 more appointment to meet his new speech therapist. They want to do therapy 5 days a week for 2 hours a day. Next month he will be formally evaluated by a psychologist for Autism, to either rule out, or confirm, what we have pretty much been told this whole last month. While this last month has been a hard journey for me, I know it is only start.
How did everyone else find out about their child being Autistic? Did they exhibit any red flags?
How did everyone else find out about their child being Autistic? Did they exhibit any red flags?