Yes; my DD was certainly a kid who was verbally precocious, and my mom was the one that forbade us to teach her decoding skills at 2-3yo, which I now wonder about-- being an elementary educator, was she afraid of DD seeming hyperlexic? Maybe.
She toe-walked, memorized dialogue, had sensory quirks, was a picky eater, had unusual obsessive interests, was anxious about strangers or breaks in her routine, and talked incessantly... so sure-- that all sounds like an ASD, right?
There was no way to encapsulate the things that made her very much NOT like a kid on the spectrum when looking at checklists and racking up "signs" of ASD's.
(Which DD is very profoundly NOT-- and it's not that I would have trouble mentally with the idea, it's just that it simply doesn't fit what I know.)
She almost certainly could have been "found" with early childhood screenings that weren't thorough enough, though.
