Guest guest Posted December 1, 2001 Report Share Posted December 1, 2001 > He asked about the future (you know, wanting reassurance he'd be > perfectly normal by then) I told him, I don't know, but I know have > hope, which I didn't have much of in the beginning. > I remember how I hoped that just a year or two of therapy would straighten it all out or that it was just not talking and that suddenly Putter would begin to talk. Putter's psychologist, who he has been seeing since he just turned three, wanted to meet with Lou and I, and in that session (the one that made Lou decide she knew nothing about autism despite the fact that is practically all she has dealt with for twenty years) she mentioned a child with autism that she has been counselling for seven or eight years. Lou was appalled and in the car afterwards he said, " She's just trying to get more clients and more business. I can't believe those parents have sent their child for that long. " Of course it IS a lifelong disability, or at least a lifelong difference. At the Autism Society meeting on Tuesday the presenter said that autism was not a developmental delay but a developmental distortion, a distinction that I liked. Salli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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