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She’s excited that she’s going to the prom,” said her mother, Martha Alvarado, 42. There are three types of autism; mild, moderate and severe, said Pete Pallares, children’s psychologist with a focus on autism and CEO of the Center for Social Dynamics. I call him the ‘Latino shame’ [shame of the Latino],” explained the psychologist, adding that sometimes parents prefer to hide their children in a room and when they ask for help it becomes more difficult. The child at age 11 has already acquired a series of rituals so as not to communicate verbally when the 3-year-old child he’s just learning that, “said the psychologist.