Parental experience of supporting children after autistic burnout
Parental experience of supporting children after autistic burnout
Summary: Routines can be helpful provided they are implemented collaboratively. Predictability increases the feeling of safety, but they need to feel agency in how it is achieved. When I first came to the realisation that my child had PDA, much of the…
I put down specialist placements as my top three preferences when applying for secondary school. I’d had a specialist placement in mind ever since I began the lengthy and difficult process of applying for an EHCP. He was deep in…
Since I left work to be with my sons while they recover from autistic burnout, the effects on my 11-year-old son haven’t entirely been what I’d expected. I’d really hoped that the impact of my increased availability would be entirely…
As my children are starting to recover from burnout, they are beginning to need more from me, and not less. Significantly more. I am incredibly glad to be facing this issue fundamentally, and on other hand it is the hardest…
So long in the making was my decision to home educate my youngest child (age 6) that there was a great deal of buildup. As mentioned in my previous post, we even had a ‘false start’ around 6 months before…
As someone who has typically always derived comfort from existing within a system, and trying to exist within it, I did not at all expect to be beginning a career break with neither of my children currently attending school at…