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My son was diagnosed at 3 to be on the spectrum. We wasn’t verbal until 3.5. I definitely understand the concerns and all the questions parents can get. Unfortunately, in Quebec (Canada) the specialists doesn’t give a classification as part of their diagnosis. We were being told that our son son autism is “too mild” to get any public services. He isn’t mild, he scores all the typical autistic behaviour: never respond to his name, like lighting up , flapping, hate loud crowds and sounds, food texture was a huge problem, hyposensitivity, none verbal, play in parallel, etc. But the public services is limited so they just serve the super autistic. Knowing that, we start with the private sector: speech therapy, ergo for food texture, phychoeducator, physiology, etc, etc. I am a working mom. I had no life. I was too busy to be depressed. With all the specialists, we made a plan and goal weekly and adjust them according to my son’s responding and progression. My husband was very involved and without telling me he resigned and took a new job but closer to our house. I had an agenda fill with specialist meeting and reviews. Our psychoeducator even visit our son at his daycare and tech him how to play with other kids and not in parallel. I was lucky coz my daycare has a speech therapist services as there other kids who needs the services. And fortunately our insurance cover partially the cost. We were told to be prepared to send our son to a special needs school. All I want, it was a normal life. All our free time we spend it with him and we were welling to go at any kids party as my son has. O sibling, we really want to help him socialize. A miracle happen. If all the specialists praise our efforts, i believe we only help ou son to develop his capacities…he still on the spectrum. At 4 years, he is fluent in English(daycare) and French(home). He is gifted in art, science, history and mathematics. At 6 years, he start reading a lot of books by himself. As people say, autistic people has only one interest. It kind apply to him also. He loves dinosaurs, so he learns from books and youtube all ….but ALL about them and their era. How tall, weight, food, forces, etc. He can speak about them every day for 6 months. When he done and he has nothing more to learn, he finds a new subject of interesting: animals, Minecraft, world war 2, etc. He is 9 years and knows more things than me ( i am an engineer)… Fortunely, he likes to have friends but doesn’t know how to interact with them. That’s were I help him. We build a tree house with climbing net, the kids say it’s our street coolest thing. He has a lot of friends coming and spending all day climbing outside and improving the project. I would never know my son’s autistic level, but i will always be there for him.

I’m on the autism spectrum myself, and most of these I have displayed to varying degrees. Off topic but I don’t know why I giggled when your little girl replied “strawberry” to “what’s your favorite vegetable?” But it was adorable. You have a wonderful family, and may God bless you always!

I love how big sister interacts with Simon. It’s so adorable. It melted my heart❤

Thanks for all the work and time of your family to always help Ezra and Simon, they are loved so much!

This is brilliant that you thought to do this test!! So helpful! TY!

Being an Autistic adult, I explained to people that they call me "mild" Autistic because they experience me in a mild way, but to me, I don't experience Autism in a mild way. I'm Autistic all the time, not some of the time. My Autism isn't mild for me, it's hard, all the time. However, I have come to understand how to be more comfortable with myself. When people say someone is mildly, moderately, or severely Autistic, what said people are actually saying is THEY experience an Autistic individual "mildly", "moderately ", or "severely--- to the Autisitc individual, it's not mild, it's not moderate, it's not severe, it just "is what it is" all the time. What does get easier though is when we (Autistic people) acquire more-and-more social skills. Autistic people don't acquire or learn social skills intuitively, we can learn them. Though, even when we know lots of social skill-sets, we still lack what I call "social sense" (aka..what NT people call "common sense"). Though, many Autistic people I know are intellectually very advanced---especially as they mature.

Thank you for sharing. This was good. BEAUTIFUL family!!!

2:55 this is exactly my son hes 2 and these videos help so much. No official diagnosis yet but ive seen signs since he was 14 months. Thank you so much for opening up your life to share your experiences. I dont feel so alone now.

Thanks for your video! I can read a lot about levels of autism but seeing then examples is so much easier. Helps me see where our 3 year old falls in. Thank you!!

I commend you for making these videos. Thank you for taking the time to help infirm people. This is so obvious not an attempt to seek attention for you in any way which is how these things seem to. With much appreciation and admiration! All the best to you and your family.❤

It's wild I just foundd this channel and have a family of 7 like yall! My oldest 3 doesn't have it but my youngest 2 (twins) does have it. Definitely gained another subscriber tonight.

What a great family! So much love and support 😍

My daughter was diagnosed with autism. She started speech and occupational therapy. It took a long time to get stuff done. She can be challenging during therapy sessions. I wonder if she will improve. I must have faith. I wish her insurance would cover more sessions but I am grateful for any services she gets. I wish there was funding, scholarships or free programs so all children with a disability would receive support. I dislike the fact that is all about money in this country. So sad. If children don't get support autistic symptoms can get worse overtime. Some children that are autistic and are level 1 or high functioning deserve to get support too but most insurances don't think so.

High, friends!!!! I love you ❤❤️😘. Thank you for sharing, it is so important. I am subscribed and I want to learn with you!!!! Happy 2024. Thank you for sharing your beautiful family!!!! YAYYYYY!!!!

Thank you for sharing!

Taking the entire train set apart then lining up the train cars perfectly spaced out along the wall made me laugh because my daughter does this all the time and has been diagnosed since 3yo. In some ways because her symptoms were more obvious it was a smoother process having her identified. Thanks 🙏 for sharing do other parents can learn.

Thanks for this informative video. I'm 23 and was tested for autism as a child, but they said I didn't have it despite having some of the traditional signs of autism (picky eater, speech delay, early reading etc). They thought I was so smart that I was being "manipulative." Now I'm an adult that struggles socially. I believe I might have level 1 autism or possible ADHD. It's videos like these that are helping me learn more about autism. Best wishes to you

I’m finding your videos interesting and helpful. My nephew was diagnosed with autism when he was about six years old - he was labeled as “suspected autism” for a couple of years prior to that. It took them a while to make the official diagnosis, for some reason. Maybe because he tends toward the milder end of the spectrum in some ways. I’m seeing some parallels with your younger son, especially. Anyway, these videos are helping me understand my nephew better. Thanks!

Also, diagnosis can vary from country to country. I live in Canada and I was officially diagnosed with High Functionning Autism. Basically, where I live, they talk about levels of functionning instead of actual levels. High Functionning autism is the equivalent to your Level 1, Low functionning autism is the equivalent to your Level 3. To make it easier, I have the same diagnosis as Simon. Also, I was only diagnosed at 18 years old for a variety of reasons so, had I been tested at Simon's age, I might not have tested at the same level. Levels in autism can change through time, it's not because you have a low functionning autistic child that your child will be low functionning forever, they can grow and learn a lot if they have the right support which can lead to them getting re-assessed as mild or even high functionning. I'm considered high functionning because of everything I can do but, it doesn't mean that I don't struggle. I don't "look autistic" unless I stop masking so, most of the time, I'll get weird looks from my peers if I leave class randomly or if I can't hold a conversation with someone other then my best friend (who happens to also have autism although he's at a higher functionning level then I am). They don't understand that I might leave class for 15 minutes if I'm getting overstimulated (teachers can't prevent me from leaving since it's in my accessibility plan at my school). All levels of autism are hard to deal with so, if you've read this far, please make sure to respect everyone and keep an open mind, you'll find yourself having a lot more fun in life and you'll learn a lot.