I don't know about the parent comment you are asking- for me, ADD diagnosis all my life helped me understand my quirks. Why I'm impulsive, why I have trouble co

I don't know about the parent comment you are asking- for me, ADD diagnosis all my life helped me understand my quirks. Why I'm impulsive, why I have trouble concentrating (especially in XYZ environment). Knowing what to google or ask councilor for help with. It helped my parents raise me since they were able to work with my quirks. My sister has autism and was diagnosed in her early twenties. Same with my husband. They are under that high functional Aspergers spectrum that the article author is describing - intelligent, introverted, few behavior/social quirks. From what both of them have told me, having that 'name' they can attribute their quirkiness helps them deal and manage rather than a vague 'being weird/different/wrong' feeling otherwise.