a very good friend's child has it and I'm struggling to find ways of handling it. Can anyone help me? If your child has ASD, what do you wish your friends had done?
I have tried asking her about what it all means, but I feel she is holding quite a lot back.
As he gets older I'm finding it more and more difficult to understand. I don't know all the ins and outs of what they are dealing with. I do know that he has been permanently excluded from school (he is 11) and they are trying to get him some appropriate education. To me - an untrained, un-knowing layperson - , he has behavioural problems. Ie he gets violent if he doesn't get his own way. My friend says that his is a cognative issue, not behavioural. My friend also says that if you treat him like he has ASD, then he doesn't get violent. How do you treat someone like they have ASD?
a slight complication is that she is a very competitive person and I find that I have to admire how great her child's intellect is, while at the same time making sure that my own child doesn't accidentally do something that provokes an attack!
any comments/advice gratefully received.
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lost4words · 08/09/2009 15:11
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