10 ways to help your autistic child

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Not to be rude but have you ever considered not making him go with you to church?

I think this is great advice. Wish I'd come across it sooner, but better late than never. Thank you for sharing.

yeah we do avoid taking him some weeks (he hasn't been for about 5 weeks, since starting school actually because I think he has a hard enough time holding himself together at school, I want weekends to be his peaceful zone-out time).
I wish I could take him to church tho as it's important for our family, and if ds needs to stay home it means I dont' get to go to church either, but hey that's life

Souper Trouper...I couldn't agree with you more! You are SOOOOOO CORRECT!! ! Please do the world a favor and write this up on squidoo!! ! Please, with "autism awareness month" coming up, parents need to really see this...Everyone asks me how the heck my son has changed so much since his diagnosis...and I can honestly say that I have done many of the things you describe here, which of course, are against what many doctors will tell you to do...and I learned many of them through this forum.

Please, go to www.squidoo.com and write it up! You will be helping MANY parents! Bless you!

Thank you, thank you, thank you......I could learn a lot from you.

Thank you for these useful tips but it would have been better if you used the term "child with autism" or "child on the autism spectrum" to describe the condition of the child.

Not everyone in the autism community agrees with "person-first" language. I, for instance, prefer to think of myself as an "autistic person," as, obviously, does the original poster who labels herself that way.

Many of us who post in this forum are on the spectrum ourselves as well as parenting children on the spectrum, and understand there are differing ideas on descriptions of all kinds - and as long as those descriptors are coming from the community and are not being applied without their consent, I think we need to be considerate of their wishes.

It always throws me off when old threads get resurrected. I wonder how many of the posters are still around? Still, the tips were good ones then and are still good ones now.

I love this thread and try to bump it every so often. I started following SuperTrooper in other places, she's wonderful.