What Happens When You Take Your Autistic Child Out of School
No, you’re not being an irresponsible parent.
Yesterday we celebrated my granddaughter Amari’s tenth birthday. It was a joyful and relaxed day with a happy, chatty child who was enthralled with her gifts, and played contentedly with her new horse stable all day.
She had only one, mini-meltdown, due to not wanting anybody to sing happy birthday to her. She finds being the centre of attention overwhelming and the sight of her beautiful birthday cake with a candle to blow out was a demand too far.
Amari has recently been diagnosed with *ASD (Autistic spectrum disorder) and ADD, (attention deficit disorder) and these first ten years of her life have been challenging to say the least.
It can take a long time to understand that your child is not wired the same as other children, and that her unusual struggles with the ordinary stuff of life are because she is experiencing the world differently.
There were always indications that she was finding life challenging, and these indicators mostly showed up as fears. Fear of going to the toilet, fear of being sick, fear of public places, and as a small child, being unable to sleep at night in case there was a house fire.
