Autistic son

[tigerkitty876]

Hi ladies need a little advice with this one...

My 12 year old son was diagnosed with severe autism at the age of 7 and since then has been extremely struggling in school from bullying to class work. I have contacted the school, tried homeschooling but nothing seems to help him make friends or concentrate on work. I don't know what to do because now he is in secondary school things have taken a turn for the worse. He comes home crying every day saying people are bullying him. Please can other #autisticwarrior mums help me😣❤️ Xxx

Really sorry you and your DS are going through this. Is he at a mainstream school? Does he have an EHCP? Both my (autistic) DSs found mainstream secondary intolerable. DS1 ended up moving to a special school, funded by his EHCP. I home educated his brother.

I'm sure you're already trying to get support from the school. Nothing helped my sons apart from leaving that environment. Would changing schools be an option?

Just going to sleep, but hope you get more answers soon. 💐

My 12 yr old was diagnosed upon lvg primary and I knew she wouldn't cope in secondary. Like ur son the bullying was just too much. Changed schools and the 2nd was worse. She hasn't been in school since Sept now and is in autistic burn out. She was very angry and aggressive for a while and eventually I had to low demand parent her, for her to recover. She has bad ocds and her sleep pattern was all over the place.

What has the school pit in place? Part time timetable, a room where he can work alone, picking his own subjects? All this was put in place for my daughter but she still won't attend.

Ask school to do a health needs assessment and start applying yourself now for an EHCP. Collate as much evidence as possible and if required get a taf with family workers and sendiass in place. That's where I am now.

Sorry to hear that. DD16 has only just been diagnosed but really struggled with school at the same age. The only thing that worked was taking her out of school. It doesn’t help with friends and she struggles with this, but she is now at college and doing ok and has people to work with and talk to. If he’s diagnosed an EHCP would seem like the best route.