Some days you worry about whether you are doing the right thing as a parent. You second guess yourself all the time. My son went to a gaelscoil (school through Irish, it’s not our main language at home). I have second guessed myself about choosing that route, about the age he started etc. As the diagnoses (Autism/ADHD) first rolled in at age 7 when the anxiety hit the roof I questioned and debated again whether I made the right calls. The following year the dyslexia diagnosis came in and I properly panicked to have him in a dual language school. But ultimately their support is great. And we couldn’t get him in anywhere else local. And we worried about moving him from his friends as making them is very hard for him
Two years ago we could not discuss emotions with him. He’s been in play therapy and psychology and has settled completely into himself. But still will not discuss emotions or feelings with us or others. He’s always ‘bad’ or ‘doesn’t know’.
Other days however you can take the win, recognise it and bask in the realisation that right now? Right now his school are doing AMAZING!
Last February they asked could they put him in a small group social support group as they felt he was ready. He came home today with a scrap book full of photos and pictures and writing (writing is a massive problem for him!) describing himself in a positive light, describing emotions, listing out his worries…. NGL I cried. This is just so amazing to see and I can’t believe they managed to get this all out of him
Today is a good day
I’m a speech therapist and that’s really great to hear! Children with autism have a lot of difficulty understanding emotion at all, so it might be hard for him to express it. I’m glad he is getting better!
OMG, I’m so happy for you! I’ve been hearing lots of great things about social groups like you describe. I can’t wait until my daughter is older enough for one. It sound revolutionary.
Would you mind crossposting this to my instance? I want more stories about ND kids to be posted there. I think the link would be /c/[email protected]
Just as well you figured it out because I can’t find that instance 🙈😂
No worries! We’re all figuring this stuff out! I’m kind of link spamming at discuss.divergentparenting.space. It’s a small instance with not many people connected, so it might just be that your instance doesn’t know about it yet. IIRC, if you subscribe to one of the comms, everything will load faster.
See I have zero idea what that means 😂. I’m using wefwef with vlemmy as my start instance. But when I search any version of that it just doesn’t come up at all
No worries, I think it’s just because my instance is small. I’ll send you a DM if you wanna wait until I fix it
I can’t edit my comment for some reason, but I just realized I could cross-post your post. Thank you for sharing this wonderful experience
Aww that’s amazing!
