I am certain my 11 year old is ASD. Due to a fair bit of luck I don't think that has really negatively effected him so far. I was expecting issues to manifest in high school but so far so good. Still though I am concerned about the future, I can readily identify the reasons why we have hit no stumbling blocks as yet and some of them will change, ie he has hit puberty ahead of most of his peers and that combined with him being tall and big built (not overweight) is a protective factor against bullying. DH's attitude is all "labeling is bad" and "not broke don't fix". He has accepted that DS is likely ASD.
I go back and forth on this. I genuinely don't know what to do.
I have this terrible habit of trying to pre-empt responses from other posters which makes my posts longer and longer and eventually I just give it up as a bad job and don't post anything. I would really like some advice on this and have tried to post numerous times in the past few weeks but ultimately deleted as I don't feel I explain myself well. So with that said I have tried to be brief and not overthink this post. I am happy to answer anything additional but please don't be too harsh with me if I have phrased anything poorly.
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IChangedM · 14/04/2017 23:39
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