Day 10 ~ Write about something for which you feel strongly
Autism awareness for the general populace and better education for parents/family members of people who are diagnosed on the spectrum. I’ve been very fortunate to have several professionals working with my son who are more than willing to go above and beyond what their job description is to help me understand my son and how deal with all sorts of behaviours/situations.
I have also had the extreme displeasure of dealing with professionals who have treated me like an idiot for not knowing certain things or refusing to hear my thoughts about things to with my son at all. I know that I don’t know or get everything about my son, but come on at the end of the day I am the one spending all my time with him! This is close to every single day so I might have an inkling of how he works even if I don’t understand it, how to deal with, or the technical jargon for it.
Again, thankfully this isn’t the case at the moment and my son has a truly wonderful team (who devote way more time than I would ever expect!) working with him to make sure he has success and his area of needs met to the best of their ability.
After a diagnosis you are given such a vague set of directions and left to flounder in it.
And because each spectrum diagnosis is so different for each person there is a lot of information out there that might not even be pertinent to your situation!
I think that every family that has someone on the spectrum should have access to some form of counseling (for free or funded somehow) or one-on-one time with a Behaviour Consultant on a regular basis so a family can be better informed and not have to wad through completely useless information or not know how to apply specific strategies/info to your situation. This would eliminate so much confusion and frustration for both family members and the person with Autism.
Day 11
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