Tag: surviving autism

An autism diagnosis can leave us paralyzed with fear for our children’s future. However, these six things will help you and your family survive autism:

1. Don’t be in denial for too long. We all do this. My denial cost us valuable time. We all hope our kids have been misdiagnosed and want it to be anything else. Back then I didn’t think autism was treatable. I was told there was no cure, no recovery or hope with autism. So I convinced myself that my son didn’t really have autism and he probably was the next genius like Albert Einstein or Thomas Edison.