I was the one who didn't want to believe the ASD diagnosis at first. My little one had 4 evals within the span of 2 months (private developmental pediatrician, school district IEP assessment, Regional Center psychologist, and private pediatric neurologist) and it seriously took all 4 of them agreeing on the diagnosis for me to accept it. I kept hoping that one of them would say that the others were wrong, that all the social interaction difficulties were just a factor of the speech & language delay. Nobody WANTS their loved one to have a major neurological disability and it's easy to explain away the symptoms as just being a "late talker" when the child is young.

First of all I want to say I'm sorry that you are going through so much aggravation. You are the parent and know your child the best are you seeing symptoms and signs of asbergers syndrome, autism or something on the spectrum?? My advice to you would not take him to a regular physician especially one that you haven't even seen before the best thing to do maybe to take him to a neurologist. You're not crazy don't give up on your child I have been through many doctors in the beginning when my son was just three years old from neurologist to psychiatrists keep going until you find the right dr. that is willing to listen to you and understand you and your child they are out there don't give up you'll find one

To this day, my husband still doesn't believe his 15yr old son has autism, and he was diagnosed at 24 mos. I don't fight him on this, because if I had, I would've lost valuable time. I just went about enrolling/diagnosing on my own without his approval. Do what you need to do, because it's all about early intervention. By the way, I'm still married and things are fine.

My wife was in denial for over a year after ASD diagnosis. ASD is simply a "I don't know what's wrong" diagnosis but here are some things that you can do to help. So, my reasoning was simple - whatever is the case and whatever you want to call it (whether it is speech delay or ASD or whatever you want to call it), early intervention is only going to help narrow any development delays. We will give it a try for a year and revisit after that.

So, I had to get early intervention (biomed, ST and VB-ABA) started despite her initial objections. After a year, she realized that it was best for our son and became a bit more pro-active with actually helping our child. After 2 years, she knows the diagnosis was indeed correct.

While it is much easier if both parents are on the same page, sometimes it is not always possible. Just need to give it time.