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My son hates school and it’s affecting his mental health

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Hi, my 10 year old son has struggled with school for a while now and it’s getting to the point where it is really effecting him. All he wants is to be home schooled. This is the last resort for me but I just feel guilty at not even considering this avenue because I just think it would isolate him and his anxietys would get worse. I just don’t know what to do? Is it really important to push him through mainstream school? Or be at home?. If he can’t cope, what’s more important your child’s well being or go through school and effecting your mental health 

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  • If your son has a diagnosis of autism, the school are obliged to make accommodations so that his autism does not handicap him relative to his non-autistic peers. You could consider a specialist school as an alternative.

    Both myself and my daughter were diagnosed after finishing school (me, many decades later), and while we both hated school we both feel that it toughened us up to face later challenges, I started school being selectively mute, but finished education with a PhD.

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  • If your son has a diagnosis of autism, the school are obliged to make accommodations so that his autism does not handicap him relative to his non-autistic peers. You could consider a specialist school as an alternative.

    Both myself and my daughter were diagnosed after finishing school (me, many decades later), and while we both hated school we both feel that it toughened us up to face later challenges, I started school being selectively mute, but finished education with a PhD.

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