‘Autistic Spectrum’ Questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist, Page 6

Q: I am a mother of a 21 month old who was born 6 weeks early. He has always been behind and “petite”. Recently however, I have noticed some changes that have me questioning whether my son has some “mild” Autistic traits. Being that he is 21 months old, he “scoots” on his bottom to [...]

Q: Our son is 13 years old and has been diagnosed as having ADHD (4 years ago). He is on Metadate for this. What I’m really concerned about is his awkwardness in social situations. It’s very noticable by his body language and almost painful for me to watch him even walk out of school. He’s [...]

Q: My 15-year-old son, other than being very shy, pretty much glided through life as normal. Even his shyness did not really interfere with his life, as other children always seemed happy to initiate the first contact; once past that he would be at total comfort.
Separation from me was never a problem, he was very [...]

Q: I wonder if at 28, it’s too little, too late to receive help/treatment? In my case, I have Asperger’s, which caused me to develop severe depression and schizoid personality, along with serious emotional & social skills deficits.
So, I have missed out on all the childhood events, experiences, learning & developmental phases, stages of academic [...]

Q: A friend asked me to take this test online wondering what I would score and turns out it was a test about Autism. Average people with autism scored about a 35 out of 50, normal people scored around 16, and I scored a 40. I took the test again to be sure and it [...]