| Several years ago we started having people tell | | | | autism. Then I had a few other people tell me |
| us that they thought our third son was hard to | | | | that they didn't think he was autistic. It was |
| understand. It seemed like different people who | | | | difficult to weed through so many different things, |
| interacted with him at different times would | | | | but eventually we were able to get him the help |
| mention that his speech was really difficult to | | | | that he needed and he ended up growing out of |
| understand. I hadn't really noticed it, but it was | | | | some of the characteristics. |
| because we lived with him and were around him | | | | At the time I talked to several of my friends that |
| every day. | | | | did have autistic children. It was very interesting |
| With the different comments I started paying | | | | to learn so much about autism and all of the |
| closer attention. Then we started noticing that he | | | | different things out there to help with children that |
| wouldn't eat with us and that he didn't really want | | | | are autistic. Many of my friends strongly |
| to be around people. He was showing some anger | | | | recommended that if he was autistic that one of |
| and that he didn't want to listen to us. We started | | | | the best things we could do to help him is to get |
| working with several different specialists to see | | | | him into a preschool that dealt with that so that |
| what we could do to help him. | | | | he would get help early on. |
| I had one person ask me if I had him checked for | | | | |