[Calpernia]

YES! There is a difference with Autism and Autistic like behavior. As long as criteria can be met from various diagnoses, you can be labeled autistic and not be a patient with true autism.

[luckystarmom]

In the speech group that I belong to, many of the kids have been mis-diagnosed as autistic when they really had a speech disorder.

I'm very lucky that no one ever misdiagnosed my daughter.