Post by bee on Jun 8, 2005 11:09:29 GMT -5
We have a wonderful bonkers 6 year old. I'm an educationalist and suspected early on what my sons condition might be. My partner on the other hand, is from a very different background (I'm one of 7 in a big working class family) he was bought up in what I consider a very non tactile academic family, I also suspect that his brother and sister are high achieving autistic people.
The problem is my partner doesn't seem to accept the diagnosis, he sees much of what our son does as 'normal' even though our son has been assessed and has a statement and all the professionals agree that he is on the spectrum. Here upon the problems start, introvert, obbsessive, depressive, angry, self harming behaviour isn't 'normal' stuff' and I want to do everything in my power to provide my son with the time to be 'autistic' to develop in any way he wants and to put into place strategies to help with the more destructive and depressing nature of the condition and I CAN'T do this without his Dad's help and acceptance and it's breaking my heart. And yes, I do believe his Dad is Autistic too, any advice would be gratefully recieved. Bee
The problem is my partner doesn't seem to accept the diagnosis, he sees much of what our son does as 'normal' even though our son has been assessed and has a statement and all the professionals agree that he is on the spectrum. Here upon the problems start, introvert, obbsessive, depressive, angry, self harming behaviour isn't 'normal' stuff' and I want to do everything in my power to provide my son with the time to be 'autistic' to develop in any way he wants and to put into place strategies to help with the more destructive and depressing nature of the condition and I CAN'T do this without his Dad's help and acceptance and it's breaking my heart. And yes, I do believe his Dad is Autistic too, any advice would be gratefully recieved. Bee