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devilnum2

Hi all I'm claire and my 9 year old son has just been diagnosed with asd I'm still struggling to get my head around it all hoping to chat to people in a similar situation I have 4 children age 12 9 7 and 3 so have a handful at home iv been threw a lot to get the diagnosis including a permenet exclusion from primary school and still waiting for a statment to be released 

  • im sorry, I posted this as a reply to you instead of a new thread

    I must apologise

  • Good afternoon everyone. 

    After almost 2 years of pushing and pushing with letters, phone calls and everything else....we have just had the diagnosis that our 3 year old son has autism. 

    It isn't severe but it is obvsiously still a concern and a shock to the system. We're waiting to hear from the local Autism Outreach team with the next steps.

    I was just wondering what sort of advice anybody can give us in the meantime of how to deal with it because we don't really know what to expect now going forward such as the best school, how to discipline, is he being naughty or is it condition, should we have groundrules, can we expect family who do a lot of our childcare to understand, should we give him more time in nursery than what he currently has.

    Also, my main issue is when Olly is acting up in public- I feel like I need to explain to people what is wrong, do other parents feel like that or do I just keep quiet?

    I know I should probably wait until the professionals have been in touch but who knows that long will take and my wife and I are understable upset and worried.

    many thanks

  • Hi - welcome.  You'll get a lot of support + info on this site.  If you haven't already have a browse around the home page + also the posts.  Sounds like you've had a tough time getting the diagnosis.  Do you know at all when you'll get the statement.  It's so stressful, to put it mildly.  How's your son doing?