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SNOOPY SUE

Hi everyone

I'm a mum of a 17 year old son (Adam). After 15 years of going backwards and forwards to the GP asking for help and support and being told that "it's his age and he'll grow out of it". A locum GP finally agreed to a referral for autism assessment. It has now been confirmed that Adam is indeed on the autistic spectrum. Question is.. I really don't know what to do to support Adam. I'm not sure how much of Adam's behaviour is due to the autism and how much is due to the result of years of making extra allowances for Addy's behaviour and therefore allowing him to get away with more. 

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  • He'll have to learn how to stop throwing things if he is to survive as an adult in not autistic friendly world. 

    Like Catlover said, the beast way, is to avoid situations that can trigger you to act emotionally, from what you said it doesn't look like he is alexithymic too, so he won't be able to stop reacting when emotions are high, and when you're like that, you forget about masking, which has to be actively overseen all the time

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  • He'll have to learn how to stop throwing things if he is to survive as an adult in not autistic friendly world. 

    Like Catlover said, the beast way, is to avoid situations that can trigger you to act emotionally, from what you said it doesn't look like he is alexithymic too, so he won't be able to stop reacting when emotions are high, and when you're like that, you forget about masking, which has to be actively overseen all the time

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