Hugs, girl. I'm so sorry. Jackson is so lucky to have such a wonderful, loving, thoughtful, intelligent, hard-working advocate in you. You have done so much for him already and tomorrow when you wake up and it's a new day and you move forward it will be the right path for you and for you son.
take care,
A

Oh, Stacy, I am so sorry for your worry and your pain. BUT ...... keep in mind, because he has the diagnosis, they are LOOKING for anything and everything that is consistent with the diagnosis. "Interesting conversation"??? What does that mean??? I can try to have a conversation with Olivia, who, as you know, can talk your socks off. But I can try to start a conversation about something I want to talk to her about, and well, if she is focused on something else ... forget it!!! It is as if I never said a word, and she just starts rambling about whatever it is that SHE is thinking about. Would that be noted by an evaluator if she had "spectrum issues???? You bet it would.

I am not trying to dismiss your conerns. But, girl, I know Jackson. I have talked to Jackson. I have not found him to be "extremely low" in ANYTHING -- except maybe meaningless fluff. I have never thought he didn't "talk clearly." I understand every word that comes out of his mouth. I have NEVER seen him not be polite. And not only that -- I have seen him take up for my daughter when he thought was not be being treated well. Someone says he "is concrete"???? Well, so is every engineer and scientist from MIT. He will fit right in!!! Mark my words: some day your son is going to be considered much more successful, and will be making a hell of a lot more money, than the vast majority of those "conversational" kids currently in his classroom. AND he will have friends who enjoy getting together for their "concrete" conversations about topics that his present-day "evaluators" wouldn't be knowledgable enough to participate in.

{hugs}