
Autism / Autism Spectrum Support Group
Autism is classified as a neurodevelopmental disorder which manifests itself in markedly abnormal social interaction, communication ability, patterns of interests, and patterns of behavior. Although the specific etiology of autism is unknown, many researchers suspect that autism results from genetically mediated vulnerabilities to environmental triggers.
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I feel so isolated - so alone and so sad. It seems as though everywhere I go, I feel sadness and emptyness. I am afraid to drop my son off at school because it seems that each day, I fear someone saying something hurtful to me. I am a very sensitive person anyway - you add autism to the picture and boy! does that really make me feel like putting my head down.
Yesterday, I was talking to my son's speech therapist and she had the nerve to compare her son to mine - she said he had social issues that she needed to work with him on. I asked her if her son had autism. She said, "no." How dare her compare her "typical" son to my child. She has no idea how it feels each day to have behaviorists, Ot's , going to autism meetings, etc., trying to get my son to be somewhat "typical." She doesn't have her son laughed at because he is clumsy and doesn't have body awareness. How ignorant for a speech therapist to make such a comparison! I wrote a note to the principal and told him how upset I was that a professional could make such a comment. You can't compare an autistic child to a typical child when it comes to social behavior - you just can't!
Some of these professionals are so ignorant! When my son was 2 and getting early intervention support, his OT actually told me that my son's social behavior was due to me - that he was mirroring his behavior off of me.
Some of these professionals don't know much! It is scary!
Yesterday, I was talking to my son's speech therapist and she had the nerve to compare her son to mine - she said he had social issues that she needed to work with him on. I asked her if her son had autism. She said, "no." How dare her compare her "typical" son to my child. She has no idea how it feels each day to have behaviorists, Ot's , going to autism meetings, etc., trying to get my son to be somewhat "typical." She doesn't have her son laughed at because he is clumsy and doesn't have body awareness. How ignorant for a speech therapist to make such a comparison! I wrote a note to the principal and told him how upset I was that a professional could make such a comment. You can't compare an autistic child to a typical child when it comes to social behavior - you just can't!
Some of these professionals are so ignorant! When my son was 2 and getting early intervention support, his OT actually told me that my son's social behavior was due to me - that he was mirroring his behavior off of me.
Some of these professionals don't know much! It is scary!
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I strongly encourage you to see your pcp because this is your mental health that is at stake here and Lord only knows, we have so much stress dealing with our kiddos and the school and the services that we need all the help we can get.
hugs,
gaylek11
You go girlie!!! Good for you!!!
Hugs,
gaylek11