If you are new to this autism journey and are wondering how to process all the information out there. Here are some things I wish I had known while going through the process. All autism characteristics do not all fit into a checklist.  Many of the early signs of autism we recognized later in our son as he got older did not fit into the standard website search.  Our son, at an early age, loved anything round.  He carried around balls, round fruit, played with practically anything in the form of a circle. We did not recognize this as fixed interest. When you think of an interest in something like…