Originally Posted by boldlyguessing
I believe that my husband's brother is on the spectrum (and 2E), but has never had a formal diagnosis, so I should have considered Asperger's as a real possibility. My hesitancy comes from reading the DSM criteria - my daughter doesn't fit those, but I know that girls can display differently.


Mandi, I dismissed the possibility of AS in my DD17 for the same reason until after I read the book "Aspergirls" by Rudy Simone, it was a real eye-opener and I highly recommend it.