We finally got the much awaited phone call and appointment and psych report. We got answers! Of course, being Nicholas, they are not the clean cut answers we hoped for. But ANSWERS!
Autism often comes with accompanying behaviour disorders and they interact and affect each other. It makes sense, a child can't say, "Today I will react to this stimuli using my autism and tomorrow I will try with my behaviour disorder." Many things come into play and the end result is not always predictable. Which is why we must do things more than once before declaring it a total failure.
The testing they did at the Regional Centre had several components over several sessions. On one of these days he was more cooperative than usual so he tested, overall, very well. On another day he was having a bad day and by the time the evaluator got to him he wanted to do nothing that was being asked. So these differences in behaviour skewed the results. The park observation I mentioned in the other post, however, was of enough concern to just give it to him: He is autistic.
But he will need to be completely re-tested in two to three years to confirm.
I'm not disappointed because this means that for at least the next two to three years the Regional Centre will be helping us with services he desperately needs. We will worry about the future when it gets here. He may do well enough to not even need services by them, or not as many. Right now, that little boy in front of me, that's who needs help. And this will get it to him.
And the tension and stress I did not even know I was carrying is lifted.
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