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Working on an Aspie diagnosis and the school is fighting me!!
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 312072" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Even with an Aspie diagnosis, medications can sometimes help. But I agree - only if the specialist YOU see, says that they're worth a try. Not on the school's say-so.</p><p></p><p>I've been appalled at how THICK school psychs can be sometimes. difficult child 3's school counsellor stood on the school steps with me, looking down over the playground at break time, watching difficult child 3 walking around the edge of the basketball court, totally oblivious. But because he was wearing school uniform (like all the others) he blended in. The school counsellor said, "It's wonderful to see that difficult child 3 is no longer autistic!"</p><p></p><p>I was appalled and reminded her that autism is life-long. "But he's talking so well now, his language is now within normal limits. He's lost the diagnosis."</p><p>I said, "Nobody ever loses the diagnosis. As difficult child 3 himself said, he's getting better at preternding to be normal. But he will always have to work at it, in order to be able to blend in. That effort needs to be acknowledge and valued, or he will always wonder why it's harder for him and resentment will build."</p><p></p><p>Sometimes I just want to smack them. The school counsellors, I mean.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 312072, member: 1991"] Even with an Aspie diagnosis, medications can sometimes help. But I agree - only if the specialist YOU see, says that they're worth a try. Not on the school's say-so. I've been appalled at how THICK school psychs can be sometimes. difficult child 3's school counsellor stood on the school steps with me, looking down over the playground at break time, watching difficult child 3 walking around the edge of the basketball court, totally oblivious. But because he was wearing school uniform (like all the others) he blended in. The school counsellor said, "It's wonderful to see that difficult child 3 is no longer autistic!" I was appalled and reminded her that autism is life-long. "But he's talking so well now, his language is now within normal limits. He's lost the diagnosis." I said, "Nobody ever loses the diagnosis. As difficult child 3 himself said, he's getting better at preternding to be normal. But he will always have to work at it, in order to be able to blend in. That effort needs to be acknowledge and valued, or he will always wonder why it's harder for him and resentment will build." Sometimes I just want to smack them. The school counsellors, I mean. Marg [/QUOTE]
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