Can u reverse a diagnosis

Son is 16, he was diagnosed when he was 9 YO he is very high functioning. He thinks that the diagnosis is wrong or maybe what he needed help with like fine motor skills and social cues are now “well mastered “ He wants to challenge his diagnosis and he thinks that whatever is written is not representative of him anymore. Can we do that? He was diagnosed at Springfield Hospital Tooting, how can we get them to see him please? Any help much appreciated. It doesn’t help also that the field he wants don’t take autistic children.

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  • Society is such that in some situations, if a commanding authority said to Do This Now, an autistic-wired brain might not be able to without thought-full clarity of what that means exactly. However, in a different department, he could be a valuable resource. And with that, take a hobby which better suits -what he thinks he wants to do. 

    At 16 we may have all idealised a job which falsely appeared to contain a luxury of things we believe we enjoy. My son was so miserable about not becoming a Lead Singer in a band. Yet he's introverted and doesn't actually depend on the approval of a great deal of Others in order to exist. There is something pathological in being famous and one needs the temperament for it. But he is musical, he just needed exposure to the various roles and responsibilities within this massive industry.

    The Film industry in the States loves to hire Vets, especially for their transportation department - logistics and crew. Terms like 'Base Camp' and others are borrowed from the military. 

    And kids who want the seemingly endless adventure of the military sometimes are better suited teaching snowboarding, working a lighthouse, in the fire department, part of the ground crew at airports, as documentary film crew, geological fields, extreme sports or mechanics. 

    There is a great deal of purposeful and unintentional mis-direction in society. Apprehending talent too young, too quick. 

    Any given autistic in a stable environment, with dependable parents, a moral compass, who is allowed to grow at their pace and encouraged in their strengths will no doubt as a teen, feel the Dx is silly, unreasonable. 

    Test his improvisation skills, his ability to jump when commanded. If he falters for a moment due to a lack of knowledge of the full scale of production, when the line is depending upon him to move at someone else's whim, then a scheduled bi-weekly meet up with a therapist as a start towards "re-evaluation" could be a way to help him through this moment in time. Do something - meet him halfway. And over-expose him to a wealth of endless careers which he might be suited for. 

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  • Society is such that in some situations, if a commanding authority said to Do This Now, an autistic-wired brain might not be able to without thought-full clarity of what that means exactly. However, in a different department, he could be a valuable resource. And with that, take a hobby which better suits -what he thinks he wants to do. 

    At 16 we may have all idealised a job which falsely appeared to contain a luxury of things we believe we enjoy. My son was so miserable about not becoming a Lead Singer in a band. Yet he's introverted and doesn't actually depend on the approval of a great deal of Others in order to exist. There is something pathological in being famous and one needs the temperament for it. But he is musical, he just needed exposure to the various roles and responsibilities within this massive industry.

    The Film industry in the States loves to hire Vets, especially for their transportation department - logistics and crew. Terms like 'Base Camp' and others are borrowed from the military. 

    And kids who want the seemingly endless adventure of the military sometimes are better suited teaching snowboarding, working a lighthouse, in the fire department, part of the ground crew at airports, as documentary film crew, geological fields, extreme sports or mechanics. 

    There is a great deal of purposeful and unintentional mis-direction in society. Apprehending talent too young, too quick. 

    Any given autistic in a stable environment, with dependable parents, a moral compass, who is allowed to grow at their pace and encouraged in their strengths will no doubt as a teen, feel the Dx is silly, unreasonable. 

    Test his improvisation skills, his ability to jump when commanded. If he falters for a moment due to a lack of knowledge of the full scale of production, when the line is depending upon him to move at someone else's whim, then a scheduled bi-weekly meet up with a therapist as a start towards "re-evaluation" could be a way to help him through this moment in time. Do something - meet him halfway. And over-expose him to a wealth of endless careers which he might be suited for. 

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