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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Being financially stable and having money matter more than therapy for your kid’s outcome. Might be different for a medically fragile/complex child, but for ASD, I feel confident about this. Have a young adult and can see how the need for money continues. Keep the job (or get another one), cut back on the therapies, and realize that your spouse saying everything is great makes a negligible difference either way. Parent input just doesn’t count for that much. It will get easier.[/quote]

DP. I agree with this. Unless it’s a medical issue, so many things are not make it or break it. Having to postpone things likely doesn’t matter in the long run. And, having a spouse who downplayed my kid’s needs had minimal if any impact on what my kid received. It just added extra steps, for which reason I took care of kid medical and educational stuff.

Now with a young adult who likely isn’t ever leaving home, I’m thankful for money and a good relationship with my spouse. Life would be long without another adult to enjoy life and share the never ending responsibilities with. And so many of the goals we worked on have no impact whatsoever on what life looks like today. It wouldn’t matter if those skills were never acquired.

It’s a long game when you have a kid with high needs and you have to think about what you want your life to look like in 20 years and do what it takes to get there. [/quote]

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