Reply to HFA/ autism 17 year old

Forum Index » Kids With Special Needs and Disabilities

Reply to "HFA/ autism 17 year old"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not important for me to.la so.my son. It's the therapist who is pushing it. In fact I have avoided it for a long time. I have mentioned it to doctors when he was younger but if anything, I guarantee you his therapist would say I'm avoiding it. So I'm.a little surprised you think it's important to.me to diagnose him. [b]Sometimes the therapist scares me[/b]. He said that ds could give into peer pressure more easily and find himself in trouble with girls at college.  Things like that...

To the other poster, he wouldn't want a diagnosis. He also does the checklists for anxiety and depression and they talk about feeling alot. If he dies have anxiety he wouldn't want meds for it and it's really not a bad case if he has it.[/quote]

If your son likes this therapist and goes without a fuss to therapy, then I would explain to the therapist that you're not interested in further testing.  The therapist should probably be having a conversation with your son about why he thinks testing would be helpful. If he says, no, then the therapist needs to leave it alone and stick with CBT and respect your choices.

You don't have to have any diagnosis to fall prey to peer pressure.  If he thinks your son is particularly naive, then maybe role playing situations would help and/or maybe joining a social skills group and/or support group would be helpful to your son.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics