I pit the belief system that says that autism isn't bad

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@Spice_Weasel

I also learned that most children who are hyperlexic (fluid, early readers) are autistic. Both me and my son were hyperlexic.

It did come up early on …

What is the Best Way to Teach a (Young) Child to Read?

Again, no idea whether or you not your son will end up getting an ASD label but yes, continuing to work on the conversational bits, trying to expand on even his small answers, is the priority. In general talking about how this causes that. One more extreme version that you might related to are kids with hyperlexia. These are kids, often with autistic features, who read far above age level very early, many of whom who however have very poor compression of what they read. Some, especially those w…

@raspberry_hunter

I think it is common for autism to be comorbid with other conditions as well

Yes. In the jargon dense abstract I posted a bit ago that is what they meant by “transdiagnostic” - there are highly probably multiple entities all lumped as ASD right now, which each have various levels of severity, and varying manifestations, including sometimes poor focus and other time excessive focus just not on what their caregivers or teachers want them to focus on. For now we have to describe them as having multiple comorbidities; in the future maybe they will be split in ways that are actually useful for determining most effective approaches, just not today.