Hello, Shnoing,
Thankyou very much for your e-mail. I hope that you and your son are well, that having the dx -that actual confirmation - has helped make sense of things. It's strange, but for me things seem to have been the opposite way round; since I received my dx I've started noticing the traits of it in my parents !
Hopefully things have come some way forward since you and I were 3 years old (as I was in 1968), and that your son and you as a parent will have all the support
that wasn't available then. When my parents were told, when I was about three years old that I was profoundly autistic, it was tantamount, in those days, to a living-death sentence, and that I would probably have to spend my life in an institution.
Well, take care, Shnoing, and the very best of luck to you and your son!
K257