Got diagnosis but my partner won't believe it

The label is not there to make your some different its there to help him to be treated equally to everyone else, so he can acheive what others can. my mum refused to let the Ed psy see me 29 years ago when I was 5, it would have made my teanage years much easier if I had known, didn't get a diagnosis till I was 19. All that time not forfilling my full potential, being treated like I was dumb because I couldn't express myself in the same way as my peers. Feeling depressed sometimes suicidal because I felt so odd and axuious. 

If your partnerwas ill would he not take some head ache tablets, if the sun was in his eyes would he not put some sunglasses on, if the tele was to quiet would he not turn it up, if he was tired would he not think I need some extra sleep.

A diagnosis of ASD is just an explanation of why someone behaves in a perticuler way and from that people can devis stratergies to help that person cope better in sociaty. Maybe if your partner sees your son in himself, its hard for him to come to terms with, especially if he has always felt he has got by with out any 'special treatment', why would his son need it. Maybe some suttle hints would help, leatlets, books and computer left on, he will look at them in his own times, if he to has ASD your asking a lot of him to come to terms with. leave the information around for him to come to terms with and just tell him that its the pead has a professional obligation to inform these other organisations. 

My partner never agree with all this psycological mumbo jumbo if he can't see it then its not broken, however over time, living with me and my kids he not only understands  our idisyncraces I think deep down he knows he has his own, but I would never force that issue. At the end of the day he is him and I is me, I only use my diagnosis to get a more even playing feild in my studies.

good luck x

The label is not there to make your some different its there to help him to be treated equally to everyone else, so he can acheive what others can. my mum refused to let the Ed psy see me 29 years ago when I was 5, it would have made my teanage years much easier if I had known, didn't get a diagnosis till I was 19. All that time not forfilling my full potential, being treated like I was dumb because I couldn't express myself in the same way as my peers. Feeling depressed sometimes suicidal because I felt so odd and axuious. 

If your partnerwas ill would he not take some head ache tablets, if the sun was in his eyes would he not put some sunglasses on, if the tele was to quiet would he not turn it up, if he was tired would he not think I need some extra sleep.

A diagnosis of ASD is just an explanation of why someone behaves in a perticuler way and from that people can devis stratergies to help that person cope better in sociaty. Maybe if your partner sees your son in himself, its hard for him to come to terms with, especially if he has always felt he has got by with out any 'special treatment', why would his son need it. Maybe some suttle hints would help, leatlets, books and computer left on, he will look at them in his own times, if he to has ASD your asking a lot of him to come to terms with. leave the information around for him to come to terms with and just tell him that its the pead has a professional obligation to inform these other organisations. 

My partner never agree with all this psycological mumbo jumbo if he can't see it then its not broken, however over time, living with me and my kids he not only understands  our idisyncraces I think deep down he knows he has his own, but I would never force that issue. At the end of the day he is him and I is me, I only use my diagnosis to get a more even playing feild in my studies.

good luck x