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New diagnosis for my 10 Year old

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Hello I'm new to all this! I just got a diagnosis for my son. He is in year 5 and has challenges around communication and transitions between activities. He is doing well academically and having joined a few Facebook Groups I can see that he has not had to navigate as many challenges as others. He is in mainstream school and they have been great with supporting him with an ECHP. I don't have the report yet but it is around communication with adults, echolalia, and not reading the non-verbal cues in conversation. he has a few intense interests (Rubix Cubes, Mindceraft, memorising lists of things like algorithms). At home we've just accepted him for who he is as a family but I know that won't always be the case in the world. I've gone through grieving, frustration, anger, anxiety, guilt, self-analysis and fear in the last two days and I'm sure that's normal! I want to embrace the diagnosis and get on with it. Any advice on how to support my son and connect with other parents?

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  • This may sound strange, but you need to teach your son to forgive himself. There will be times when things go wrong, and when he gets bullied or blamed for behaviour that is due to his autism. Help him to accept his difference, and that sometimes neurotypicals can be hard to figure out. " If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."  [ Henry David Thoreau ] 

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  • This may sound strange, but you need to teach your son to forgive himself. There will be times when things go wrong, and when he gets bullied or blamed for behaviour that is due to his autism. Help him to accept his difference, and that sometimes neurotypicals can be hard to figure out. " If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."  [ Henry David Thoreau ] 

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