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autism and BESD

Oldwoman75

my son has autism, learning difficulties and BESD, I'd never heard of BESD till I noticed it on his EHC, has anyone else experience in this and does it make coping any easier?

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  • Robert124 said:

    In fact. Saying 'sorry' is not in the repertoire of autistic individuals and is one of the social niceties that has to be learnt.  

    I wouldn't think so at all. Being genuinely sorry and therefore genuinely apologising comes to me very naturally and I think it does so to many others, at least those with mild forms of autism. Fake politeness is a totally different matter. Apart from finding it difficult to do it I can't even see why anyone would appreciate it - could imagine that this is also a common thing for autistic people.

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  • Robert124 said:

    In fact. Saying 'sorry' is not in the repertoire of autistic individuals and is one of the social niceties that has to be learnt.  

    I wouldn't think so at all. Being genuinely sorry and therefore genuinely apologising comes to me very naturally and I think it does so to many others, at least those with mild forms of autism. Fake politeness is a totally different matter. Apart from finding it difficult to do it I can't even see why anyone would appreciate it - could imagine that this is also a common thing for autistic people.

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