Autism Expert

16 Dec

Naomi today had our first visit from an ASD specialist. I don’t want to put his name on the Internet as not everyones happy with that.

I wasn’t there as I was at work. Apparently, after a shaky start he was a nice, decent guy and basically what he doesn’t know about Autism isn’t worth knowing.

Naomi thinks he came with a few preconcpetions. Basically, experts aren’t prepared for people who stand up to what they think should happen and get a bit annoyed. We think this has happened with Megans Doctor. He gave Naomi a bit of a hard time recently because Megan wasn’t enrolled in a school yet. Our answer to that was ‘find us one we approve of’. Just because Megans Autistic doesn’t mean we’ve any intention of sending her somewhere thats not up to scratch. We’ll tutor her at home before we let that happen. Not that we think it’ll come to that.

So, anyway, along comes this guy today with our Doctors judgement ringing in his ears no doubt, but after Naomi explained to him that we were just as eager as our Doctor to get Megan a place, but that second best wasn’t going to cut it for us and after Naomi explained our horror-show at the school Megan did (vey briefly) attend, he actually started to listen and communicate.

Naomi liked him quite a lot and thinks he’s obviously very knowledgeable. He didn’t push Megan and is obviously very comfortable around her (he also said she was beautiful- which of course she is!). Hopefully he can give us lots of tips and info about behavioural issues, sleeping, toilet training etc. Lets hope now we’ve persuaded him we’re not neurotic psycho-parents he’ll be a good resource.