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If, when and how to tell your child their autism diagnosis – ABC Life
For parents of children diagnosed with austism, the decision to tell their child isn’t always straightforward.
“My brain works like Andy’s brain,” my 7-year-old told me last year.
Andy is my son’s friend, and he has autism.
I was taken aback because, at the time, my son didn’t know he also had autism. But I did.
At the time, I was still deciding whether I agreed with the diagnosis we had recently sought and received. And I didn’t know when and how I would tell my son about it.
Should I tell my son he is autistic? I asked on a Facebook group called Autism Matters.
As I read the responses, I was drawn to the…
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