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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every parent has to give up the fantasy of their perfect child and love the child that they get. Real kids are tougher and more complicated than fantasy children.  When your kid has SN, it's unbelievably tough to make that transition because it seems like there isn't much upside to make up for the fantasy that you are giving up. (Ie.  "I didn't get a kid who is good at sports like I dreamed, but Larla is so talented at music!")

My child is 14 and doing very well and my husband still refuses to say that he has an ASD.  He will not acknowledge it. The most he will say is "whatever Larlo has."  DH was willing to do the work but he still can't acknowledge the diagnosis. [/quote]

I also think parents of SN kids have to give up the perfect child fantasy much earlier than most parents who can imagine their son playing in the NBA up until that child is about 8 or 9. Hard to accept that 'whatever he wants to be' is almost certainly not going to be the case when a child is only 1 or 2.[/quote]

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