In my many years of psychologically testing children, I only tested two I put an Autistic label on. A true autistic child will NOT look you in the eye. I would beat on the table to try to get the child to look at me. They also refer to themselves as “he” or “she”, never as “I” if they do manage to say anything.
The reason there are so many with that label now is, they have opened up the behavioral characteristics to include so many behaviors that most any kid could get that label now and that is a farce.
Meant to ping you to my post 40 in response to post 28.