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Closed doors - nobody seems bothered

bongo

Both my wife and I have family with Autism & Aspergers and can see in our 6 year old traits from both Autism & Aspergers (if that's possible?). Both sides battled with hell for years and years to get a diagnosis and I feel we're going to be in the same boat.

We talk to the school and they say "he's where he needs to be in terms of his writting/reading but we'll monitor the situation". But nothing ever happens apart from meetings with the school family liason woman who just says "you should try parenting classes and we'll send the school nurse round to your home to see whats going on".

We've also seen the GP who says "I can't see a problem, have you tried parenting casses?". This annoys the hell out of me as it's like these parenting classes are the be all & end all and that the school are ignoring our worries and the it feels like the longer it's left the worse anxiety he is getting too.

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    Can I ask you if you are 100% perfect parents that can't possibly learn anything more about parenting an ASD child?

    Could you not accept the assistance offered by the parenting classes? As a late diagnosed aspie, in hindsight, my parenting skills weren't great and we learnt a lot the hard way. Learning things the hard way means that ultimately the kids are the guinea pigs in our learning and they can suffer more than they should.

    Parenting an ASD child is also harder work and more difficult than parenting an ordinary child. I would think that you could benefit from every possible skill at your disposal when doing this very difficult job.

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  • Former Member
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    Can I ask you if you are 100% perfect parents that can't possibly learn anything more about parenting an ASD child?

    Could you not accept the assistance offered by the parenting classes? As a late diagnosed aspie, in hindsight, my parenting skills weren't great and we learnt a lot the hard way. Learning things the hard way means that ultimately the kids are the guinea pigs in our learning and they can suffer more than they should.

    Parenting an ASD child is also harder work and more difficult than parenting an ordinary child. I would think that you could benefit from every possible skill at your disposal when doing this very difficult job.

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