[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by Livia

I wonder whether some people diagnosed with the lesser form who appear to grow out of it may have been misdiagnosed in the first place? Like you say Annie, the spectrum is very broad, and so is the spectrum of human traits and characteristics.

I do agree with this livia. Children develop at such different rates and have many traits and characteristics tht change as they develop. As a parent it becomes almost a neurosis to measure your child's development and panic if anything seems out of the ordinary. Autism is notoriously difficult to diagnose and takes time, my friend fought for a long time to have her son officially diagnosed but I also know of people who have been told their child are displaying autistic tendencies that have never been diagnosed and have just had a slower development than other children and have eventually caught up.