Published on 12, July, 2020
We have just had an ASD assessment on our son. We have just (today) received the report and as we suspected, he is autistic. Although he knows the assessments were for ASD, he hasn't been asking what the outcome might be. Now we have a definite diagnosis, we want to tell him but we want to do it right and put it across in a positive way.
Is there anybody who can share their experiences please?
Our son is a sensitive soul and can be quite anxious.
My other concern is that he might share his diagnosis with people at school who will use it to target him.
Any help or advice is welcomed.
Thank you!
I would introduce him to people like Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Mozart, Isaac Newton and Picasso, then say that he has something in common with them, being autistic. Though figures of the past cannot be given posthumous clinical diagnoses, all these great people showed strong autistic traits. Modern day diagnosed autistics include: Elon Musk, Anthony Hopkins, Daryl Hannah and Dan Ackroyd.