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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.

It's weird because I feel like I've of my hyper focus areas is just in problem solving. Give me a job saying to move things from bin 1 to bin 2 and I'll probably get fired within a week, but give me a problem / puzzle / confusing situation and I'll devote a lot of brain power towards correcting it.

I know what worked for me won't necessarily work for DS, but I am also one of two people who know him better than anybody else in the world. And not just that, but I see the genius in him. Part of me is not as excited about therapy because it didn't help (and in some ways hurt) my development. But it's not that I don't trust the therapists. It's more that I want him to believe in himself and that he can conquer these challenges. I know he'll have some that he won't conquer, or at least won't conquer initially, but I want to show him that it can be done, and not just in a movie but by him.

So we've done it with a lot of school stuff and now with bike riding. He has issues he needs to work on still and I'm just at a pause on exactly when we should see a therapist. Like on first seeing the problem?  After he gets frustrated?  After we get frustrated? What If my first idea works? What If my first one didn't? [/quote]

he doesn’t live with you 24 hours a day, he has to learn to deal with the reactions of others when he cannot do something or has great difficulty with it. You are not always going to be there to cheer him on, he needs to learn coping strategies it comes from within.

There is no exact right time to see a therapist, but it is generally done when somebody is under distress. Look at your son‘s emotions, what do you see? Is he frustrated or stressed out? If so, it is probably time to see a therapist.[/quote]

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