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[quote=Anonymous]My late diagnosed, low support needs ASD kid hates therapy. But he’s also an anxious mess and on several serious psych meds to cope. I feel like we need eyes on him regularly beyond just me and my husband. Ostensibly he’s learning skills to manage his anxiety but we’ve been at this for years and he rarely seems able to implement those things in the midst of a meltdown. He’s almost 12.

We even tried switching a few months back to a younger therapist to see if that might help. Given all that he’s dealing with, including being dyslexic and trans, I want to give him every possible tool to manage his emotions and learn about relationships. He says he hates talking about his feelings with non-family grown ups. He’d rather talk to us or to friends. I think his anxiety is too much to lean on friends for. At this point his meltdowns are primarily about how he doesn’t want to go to therapy.

He has a PDA presentation of autism. Part of it is just that he doesn’t like being made to go anywhere.

Thoughts from parents of kids with a similar profile? Was therapy helpful? Were your kids ever able to implement the skills? Did they ever get to a place where they felt safe opening up? Is it worth it continuing to make him go? We don’t compel him to do much (shower, pick up after himself to a degree, go to school, go to doctors) but this seems important to me. I don’t want to discount his repeated protestations that he hates it. The therapist is experienced with ASD kids and pleasant, communicative, and professional. [/quote]

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