adean

I am reading on this topic as well. My son is 5 and has shown some questionnable signs of autism if you read the articles. However he is also a twin, so a lot of the communication issues we attribute to someone always there to talk for him. He does speak - however he also is very independent...would rather do things on his own most times than engage in play with others. He is active with people he is comfortable with however isn't so with new people. With all of the hype on autism, I often wonder if it just another bucket to throw "difficult to deal with" children in. I know there are severe cases where children hurt themselves, etc - but the milder cases of "autism"...I'm not convinced of the diagnosis.