Why Your Acceptance of Autism Important for Your Child
The impact to parents of having kids with autism is massive. This can result to many problems including health deterioration, social avoidance, financial difficulty and family problems. There are even times when marriage and/or relationships are broken because of the incidence of a child diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder or ASD.
Psychological adjustment to having one’s child diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder also has important implications for parent’s mental health. It is often associated with stress, anxiety attacks and depression due to denial, self-blame and despair. That’s why it is important to provide as much information and guidance to these parents so that they can get back on track in the proper care of their kids.
The mounting pressure of social stigma around children with ASD always aggravate the situation sometimes even within among close relatives and friends. In recent studies, it is found that parents with autistic children reported higher levels of depression as compared to children with other developmental disabilities because of the associated social pressures from the community and society in general.
So how do we deal with this problem?
Our best choice to survive this difficult situation in our lives is acceptance – accepting the fact that your child indeed has ASD.
Acceptance is quite important in all aspect of ASD-related family problems. This is one of the most difficult to address but is also the most effective in solving the problems associated with ASD. In fact it is key to make the parents act and do something for their kids in the early years or what is known today as early intervention.
Acceptance is oftentimes being confused with awareness. Being aware of the situation means you are presented a problem to be solved. It is providing context and understanding of the problem and the options you have to solve it.
Acceptance is much more than that…
Acceptance requires awareness and more importantly actual work that needs to done. It is being able to address the concerns of every family member by having clear goals and mission to involve everyone around you in solving the problem. It means you can withstand the onslaught of social stigma and able to repel the negative thoughts it brings to your sense of ownership of the problem.
Acceptance will also make you realize that your actions today for your kid has a huge impact for him in the future. It is the fuel to drive your behaviour towards positive outlook both for yourself and your child. It is the best cure to relax your mind, uplift your spirit and to bring hope to your every plan. It can be a magic pill to lessen the blow of the social disease that is crippling parents of kids with ASD to a halt.
Having said all this, we know it is not a walk in the park. We know because we’ve been through it. But the good thing is that you now know that it is an option you can take no matter what others will say to you. And we can prove to you as parents of kids with ASD that it helped us and our family cope up.
And when you go through all of this and you are not shy and instead proud to tell people about your special needs child, then you are indeed free from worries and have accepted your fate as you should for the sake of our beloved child.
About Us
Like many child development centers in the country that help children with ASD, we at Marinny Center for Hope are ready to help your kids develop themselves to their full potential so they can live the life they deserve in the communities they live in. It is our mission and vision that we will be able to launch your kids to the society through compassionate care and affordable intervention services that we offer in our center.
We hope that we are able to share something relevant to you today. Reach out to us anytime if you want to talk about your kid. We take every case seriously and with utmost confidentiality. Should you need to talk to someone, please reach out to Marissa at 0917-543-9163.
Thank you and have a great day.
