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Coping
How do you cope
with an Autistic child? I imagine that everyone would have
their own way, but whichever way that may be it wouldn't be
without it's difficulties.
We can only speak
for ourselves, one thing is for certain for most of us and
that is forget about your social life. Just about any outing
becomes a real drama. The main problem is that most people
don't understand what autism is about, or realise that your
child is autistic, as in most cases there are no visible signs.
We therefore need to raise awareness of autism to the general
public, particularly as the incidence of autism and related
disorders is ever increasing and hence the overall autistic
and related disorders population is dramatically rising.
However that doesn't
help much right now, how do you cope if you have a screaming
child banging their head in the middle of a busy shopping
centre?
You could avoid the situation to
start with, however if that's not possible, you can make up
some business style cards with a message to the effect of:
And hand them
out to the people who are staring at you like you are kidnapping
the child, (it's only human nature to be concerned and
they probably don't know any better). This
is just one method of informing the public and raising awareness.
Outings are only
one small aspect of bringing up an autistic child, and I am
not about to go on about the subject, one thing we really
need to avoid is the negatives and make light of the difficult
situations, (easy said !). We learnt very early to
avoid negative people and those who don't want to understand,
allot of friendships have gone out the door, but who needs
friends like that!
- One good way of coping
is to surround yourself with positive people. Positive has
a way of radiating out and affecting all around, and it can
only create good results!
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