Off the scale

Max has walked off the spectrum. As predicted and expected, Max's last assessment results didn't score him as being autistic. What the heck??

Both Max's development paediatrician and his diagnosing paediatrician speculated early on that by 6 or 7 Max would have developed the coping skills necessary to "fit in" and to get through. Boy has he!!

I've been (mostly!) enjoying the newly developed, newly confident Max. He's a funny kid - bossier than I'd like but I'll squash that out of him!!

Can you believe that he made it through grade one? That he's lost 3 baby teeth with 2 more wiggly ones? That he makes his own breakfast and remembers to put the juice back in the fridge, and doesn't burn himself getting his waffles out of the toaster oven.

Told you he was just a kid, like every other kid.