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Take5
8 months ago

Hey everyone 

just wondering if we have chosen to do the right thing really.

my 9 yr old son is HFA (sorry if that term offends anyone but it’s just what’s been communicated to me. We have been given a referral for an assessment with a community paediatric. We was going to get a private assessment as it’s suspected his needs will be quite minimal but was told that he may not get the support he might need if we go down this path. 
we were told by the Gp that waiting lists in our area are 6-12 months and that we would be wise to stay with that going forward.

We are struggling to know if we are doing the right thing for him and just wondering if any of you had any advice please? 

Thanks for reading 

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  • 8 months ago

    Getting an assessment as an autistic person isn’t just about the support. We have a strong set of anti-disability discrimination laws in the UK. Getting that diagnosis makes it a lot easier to rely on those laws if you ever have to enforce your rights.

    say hypothetically down the line your now 15-year-old son gets into a misunderstanding with someone at school  caused by his autism. The school takes the incident so seriously that they expel him. It’s going to be very hard to bring up disability discrimination as a factor to try and fight that expulsion if you don’t already have the diagnosis.

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  • 8 months ago

    Getting an assessment as an autistic person isn’t just about the support. We have a strong set of anti-disability discrimination laws in the UK. Getting that diagnosis makes it a lot easier to rely on those laws if you ever have to enforce your rights.

    say hypothetically down the line your now 15-year-old son gets into a misunderstanding with someone at school  caused by his autism. The school takes the incident so seriously that they expel him. It’s going to be very hard to bring up disability discrimination as a factor to try and fight that expulsion if you don’t already have the diagnosis.

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