We sort of went the other way around, in that dd (who is 14 now) was diagnosed as profoundly gifted before she was officially stamped autistic. (She'd had several docs kind of scratch their heads and say "well, that kid ain't right", and pass on offering a concrete opinion. One would think the 50 point verbal suppression in her IQ testing might have been a clue, but...well, I digress.) In any case, for awhile we joked that her official diagnosis was "That Kid Ain't Right" syndrome. I think she was nearly eight before it got refined to Asperger's.
The thing I've noticed with developmental delays-- and ASDs can be characterized by delays rather than deficits in a lot of areas-- is that eventually, there is a certain amount of catching up/compensating/learning to "pass", and it looks a lot like "recovery". We've gone through long periods when I think dd was misdiagnosed, that she's just a kind of weird kid with a hefty side of "teenaged girl". And then we have a week like the one we've just had, wherein it is startlingly clear that I have given birth to the poster child for 2e. So my caveat is, much as it's tempting, don't break out the champagne just yet.
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