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Originally Posted by blackwhitered
Did he have any signs of childhood disintegrative disorder or autism as a child? Some autistic people appear not to be listening when spoken to. And CDD can resemble schizophrenia in some cases if I recall correctly.
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He certainly was never diagnosed with either. I'd never heard of CDD; but I just looked at the description of it. From what I read about it and the symtoms- he doesn't (did'nt) have that. Speech wasn't delayed, although by age five just as he was about to enter kindergarten, people still (except me) often had great difficulty understanding his speech because of the poor pronunciation.. He had speech therapy for several years in elementary school. Not sure why the speech problems, because his hearing tests always checked out.
Was was never diagnosed with autism (but it was never looked at either). You know 20 yrs ago the internet was nothing like it is now, so parents didn't have access to the kind of information you can get now (how the world has changed!)
More then one of his elementary school teachers said he would "space out" in class. Is is possible to have mild autism and not know?