6 Things You Should Not Do If Your Child Is Autistic
Your world shatters when you hear your boy/ girl is suffering silently and you start to blame
a countless number of people; here’s a list of what you should avoid doing.
For a counsellor/ child physiologist, it’s quite disheartening to break out the news about
the disability your bundle of joy is suffering from. From frantic series of queries that end
with will my son/ daughter dies, too long wails and tears, we must be prepared to deal
with the emotional mayhem in our clinics. And after such a day of stress, I find myself
asking God why he punished those children.
I must be wrong to think like that because I am no one to question God’s abilities and
His ways of working. While religions blame your previous sins for the troubles in your
present life, there are other fake prophets who will come up with weird sounding cures
to baffle and loot desperate parents.
Few tips to sail through this ocean safely.
1. While you are on the way towards your last months of pregnancy, know and
accept whatever form of life God blesses you with. If he has put you through a lot,
he will guide you through it too. Faith and prayer does work miracles for
everyone, let alone an autistic child.
2. Environment- Good eating habits, stress-free life and an environment of
productivity and wonderfulness will produce equal results. Ensure you maintain
a healthy pregnancy, eating right and tension free. Forgo the word tension from
your dictionary while you give the good news to your partner.
3. Birth- And you discover something wrong with your child, and your
paediatrician doesn’t. Trust your instincts and look up online and consult a
higher medical authority. The earlier it is diagnosed, the better chances of early
recovery.
4. Children- All children are alike whether born with one ear or with a slight mental
disorder. Which means they love playing and talking. Your autistic child might
need a little more help than his brother, but he will get there. Don’t ridicule or
shout at him and point his disability in a negative way. Education for autistic
children is quite a different path to take up and should be followed with a
specialised centre.
5. Education- Awareness of this disorder is necessary to every mother, and will
help you expect the worst. While the child needs special training, parents can
stay back and take lessons on motivational therapies and educational tools to
help their ward. Support for autistic individuals come in all forms of external
help- schools, therapy sessions and practise.
6. Uniqueness- Every child is unique, and don’t despise your misfortunes or an evil
eye if your child is suffering. It is statistically written off that autistic kids have an
unusual ability or gift which normal kids lack of. Discover it and nurture this
uniqueness within him/ her.
Your kid will grow up and take care of you like any other, he will socially bond
and behave as normally as anyone, if you take the chance to understand the ways
of life. Patience is a virtue, and you will cultivate it eventually. Don’t lose hope
yet.