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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 366373" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>It's cruel to force an Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) c hild into "Normal" situations if he can't handle them. He hasn't even had any interventions to make it more bearable for himself. I put my son into activities as he could deal with them. There are things he likes to do, like community work. I got him into the Special Olympics because it is much lower pressure and he didn't exactly LOVE practicing, but he did it. He goes to summer school each year to help out his old Special Education teacher (he is mainstreamed now, BUt it took work before he could handle it). I think going slow helps these kids. If you throw them into the fray then they get overstimulated, freaked out and do poorly and get discouraged and do even worse. I don't know that organized team sports on a regular team is good for him. My son did good in soccer after a while. You can NOT make an Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) kid a "normal" child. He is what he is and these kids are basically naive, trusting, very loving, but unable to transition and very easily frustrated. He really does need to be diagnosed or he won't get any help, and neither will you. Hang in there and do the neuropsychologist. Don't give into husband's insistence that son does what "everyone else" does. He's not everyone else. He is himself and he may be wired differently than other kids. Use your Mom Gut (which, sadly, I trust more than Dad Gut because so many man...it becomes a matter of ego).</p><p></p><p>Take care!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 366373, member: 1550"] It's cruel to force an Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) c hild into "Normal" situations if he can't handle them. He hasn't even had any interventions to make it more bearable for himself. I put my son into activities as he could deal with them. There are things he likes to do, like community work. I got him into the Special Olympics because it is much lower pressure and he didn't exactly LOVE practicing, but he did it. He goes to summer school each year to help out his old Special Education teacher (he is mainstreamed now, BUt it took work before he could handle it). I think going slow helps these kids. If you throw them into the fray then they get overstimulated, freaked out and do poorly and get discouraged and do even worse. I don't know that organized team sports on a regular team is good for him. My son did good in soccer after a while. You can NOT make an Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) kid a "normal" child. He is what he is and these kids are basically naive, trusting, very loving, but unable to transition and very easily frustrated. He really does need to be diagnosed or he won't get any help, and neither will you. Hang in there and do the neuropsychologist. Don't give into husband's insistence that son does what "everyone else" does. He's not everyone else. He is himself and he may be wired differently than other kids. Use your Mom Gut (which, sadly, I trust more than Dad Gut because so many man...it becomes a matter of ego). Take care! [/QUOTE]
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