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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a SN mom myself, and one of my relatives also has 3 children with SN. This relative will not stop insisting that my child has autism and that I need to be doing more for her. DD is only 2. We have a developmental pediatrician, a neurologist, and a geneticist. We get speech therapy and OT. We had an autism eval done and there were no indicators of autism. We are connected with our local county early intervention program and we also do our own private therapy. And yet my relative cannot stop recommending that we do all of the above. She doesn’t listen and isn’t really in the loop and I think for some reason assumes I’m less capable than I am. I think for her, she was super consumed with one of her children’s significant SN and feels she overlooked the more mild SN of her other kids. But basically she thinks unless I’m doing 40 hours a week of in home ABA, then I’m in denial. At one time I was even strategically trying to get an autism diagnosis for insurance reasons and couldn’t get one, because while DD does have real SN, she just doesn’t happen to have autism. Bottom line-don’t make assumptions. Listen. Also, realize there’s no magic bullet anyway so even if DC were getting all the things, he’d still have challenges so it’s not a situation of life or death. [/quote] I totally understand what you are saying. It's very rude to tell another parent "I think your kid is autistic." I cannot imagine. [/quote] As a SN parent, I just talk about my kid and their struggles: the other person then starts asking questions. This is how two of my friends ended up getting their child evaluated. One child has ASD and the other ADHD. Both were found when the kids were in middle school so not all parents know especially if the ASD and/or ADHD is mild and their kids are bright and able to compensate until they can’t.[/quote]
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