Getting the ASD Diagnosed

With the case of the family in the blog that I am following their situation is different than most families who have a loved one on the spectrum.  Their son who has Aspergers was literally allergic to every type of food as a baby.  Due to these health issues he was behind to a whole list of benchmarks.  As a result of these delays he actually received a lot of therapies (speech, feeding, OT and PT) before he was diagnosed.   However, by the age of two his Mom noticed that something was a little different with her child. He liked to line toys up according to size.  By the age four he knew the name of every character in all 6 Star Wars movies.  About this time he met with a school psychologiest who diagnosed him as Asperger-ish.  Later he was diagnosed by a pediatric developmental neurologist with having Aspergers. I think that the family didn't notice the signs of Aspergers for a while because they were so keyed in on his other health issues.  The possible warning signs such as flapping hands they wrote off for a while as a quirk and referred to it as "happy hands." I imagine that this sort of thing happens quite frequently though because hindsight is 20-20.