My younger brother (edited)

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I'm 19 and I have aspergers. My mum isn't all too happy about this. For years, she denied it when my teachers said I had something wrong with me. She didn't get me a diagnosis until her hand was literally forced, when I was 17. Even still, she isn't all too happy about it.

Anyways, I've been noticing a lot of Aspie symptoms in my nine year old brother. I really think he should get checked to see if he has aspergers or not. Mainstream school kinda destroyed all the intelligence I had, as neurotypicals in that school took advantage of me and I felt like a sheep in a pack of lions. I think that it would be good for my brother to get the diagnosis now so that (if he does have aspergers), the right things can be put in place to help him. Be that extra-help in mainstream schooling or else going to a more aspergers-orientated school.

But how do I speak to my mum about this? She'll only think I'm saying he has it because I have it. Or else she'll just be angry and refuse to listen to me. She hates talking about this stuff! But I don't want him to suffer.

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Don't regular schools automatically do various testing to pick up on that?
I mean you said it was your teachers who picked up on it with you.
Or was it like too late by then so to speak?

I don't know about most people but my school did.
When I moved schools, (I think because my mum knows / thinks I have autism), I did a lot of tests which didn't affect which classes I was put in, this was probably to see if I had learning delays in school apart from the other things.
But I haven't received much extra help apart from getting a keyboard to type with in lessons but then again I could be receiving help and not realizing it.
However, when I bring the topic up with my mum she says stuff like "I know you think you have autism but you don't", when it is very obvious that I do.
People are confusing.