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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  I totally agree that if our 2 children were severely autistic, our life would be much harder (both financially and otherwise).  My heart goes out to you parents who have to shoulder the weight of raising kids with extreme medical issues like that.  Whether you make $100k or $300k, or $700k, that is tough to do.  [/quote]
Ours is extremely high functioning autistic - but it's still a big financial drain on us.

1) Most of our peers use low cost school beforecare and aftercare - not an option for us, as he can't deal with it. So that means nanny or (in our case) au pair. Chalk that up to about $17K a year.
2) Weekly sessions with a child psychologist/therapist to work through behavior strategies and training. We do the bare minimum here, and that's about $9K a year.
3) Lots of expenditures on "rewards" used as part of behavior therapy. Probably adds up to a few thousand bucks a year.
4) We're lucky enough that our elementary school is providing adequate support for him right now - hopefully that'll continue. But that's a big potential risk to have to switch to a specialty private school.

You never know what's really going on in someone's house or with their finances. People think that we're so fancy and lucky because we have an au pair. If we didn't have one consistent person who DW trusted (and who amazingly, puts up with him), one of us would have to probably drop back to half time work - and that's an even bigger impact.[/quote]

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