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[quote=Anonymous]Wait, what?  My 2 year old DS was just diagnosed as autistic.  I work full time (+I'm the bread winner and the insurance holder).  No snark here, are you all saying I may have to quit my job?  I have some flexibility, but mostly I work 9am-4pm.  I can leave early, come in later some days, once in a while but certainly not every week.  DH does not have a flexible job a all.  He has a strict schedule M-F.   We both have vacation time but generally we have to save that for snow days and doc visits.

When I say just diagnosed, I do mean last week.  We haven't got final report with recommendations but we were verbally given a laundry list of proposed things they would like us to do...nutritional eval, ABA therapy, OT, someone to see about DS putting everything in his mouth, sleep evaluation...it was a lot.  We are already doing speech therapy once a week that I have to leave work for.

What do people who have to work full-time do?  I'm getting worried. This is all so overwhelming

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