Diagnosing...

Like a lot of parents we first noticed that the Tokoroth was a bit different a little after he was two. The usual things that concern parents: lack of eye contact, strange vocabulary and just generally not developing at the standard pace.

We're pretty chilled about these things and thought he might be a slow developer or just the last of the bunch (he's the youngest of three). Tokoroth's mum certainly thought so I but I wasn't so sure.

At first I thought he was autistic but he didn't really tick any of the boxes and it wasn't until much later that I encountered the term 'Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)'.

That was, for me, when the penny dropped and the journey began.