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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The most vulnerable children suffer from the slightest negative change in their environment.

My autistic kid, who was asocial before Covid, did not make the hoped for progress during the pandemic.

Am I blaming Covid or school response to Covid?

Not at all.

My other kids's development was not affected in the least! I recognize that this autistic kid of mine is fragile and that ANYTHING going wrong would have affected him, and will affect him in the future. He's just wired that way: we provide as much support and mitigation as we can, and when we're no longer able to help, he'll have to deal with things with the tools he has.

OP and others need to stop whining.
You don't sound credible. 
You don't have perspective.
You're really not that bright.
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How convincing...

The teachers who say they see the effects in many of their students don't have perspective and are dim?  Can you hear yourself?

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Then that teacher is unintelligent as well.

Times change and not everything can be attributed to Covid. Screentime and the incredible development of media content for children was going to snowball into a huge problem regardless of Covid. It's because of excess screentime that you're seeing developmental issues in the social realm. The pandemic and the social isolation it created for a while, combined with screens used to occupy and educate kids, revealed that problem earlier than if Covid hadn't shown up, but it would have happened anyway, and crucially, *is still happening* because more kids use screentime excessively.

The point is that many kids experience trauma during their childhood. My kid, for example, might not be as autistic and learning disabled if he hadn't had a traumatic birth event. If you consider the pandemic a trauma, then instead of wringing your hands and whining about it, you have to provide more support and training to your kid to mitigate the issues you observe.

This is what I've always done, and this is why I appear callous. I'm not. But as the parent of a kid with actual special needs, who has had years and years of special ed, speech/occupational/physical therapy and expensive tutors...

... I've had to figure things out for my family. Pull myself up by my bootstraps, so to speak, to get my kid a shot at a normal life. We didn't have the benefit of a society who suffered the same trauma along with us. We were all alone in our corner.

Your kids are going to be fine. Provide whatever support you think they need, but come on. Don't pretend that this is a huge deal. It's not. They will end up as functioning adults. I seriously hope you won't be pulling out the Covid card in 20 years! Focus on the solution, not the issue of origin.

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