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Has anyone felt totally judged by a child therapist?
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<blockquote data-quote="ahhjeez" data-source="post: 718922" data-attributes="member: 16999"><p>I'm really sorry that you and your daughter felt so judged. That's not cool at all and I don't blame you for not wanting to go through it again. Both my son and husband are autistic. My son was in play therapy for many years from the time he was probably 3 to 10 or so. She worked a lot on social skills with my son. He was her first autistic kiddo and she became very interested in children on the spectrum and eventually began working exclusively with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) kids. She was really wonderful with him. Very nurturing and kind and was kind of winging it therapy wise. She did a lot of role playing, social stories, work on his anxiety and even brushing if she thought he needed it. This was all in conjunction with anxiety medications that we started at about the age of 3 or so as he began having issues with phobias and Occupational Therapist (OT) both privately and through the school. His functioning was quite impacted and the medications made a big difference. That being said, that's just my son. Every autistic person is different. We tried therapy again after a disastrous senior year of hs. It was not a good fit. The therapist didn't have a really good handle on autistic people and was intent on trying to force social interactions on B. Finally B just said to me "Mom why is he trying to change who I am?" That was it. We were done. I don't ever want him to feel bad for who he is because he's awesome. : ) He does see a psychiatrist for medications now. She works out of an autism center that is a division of a major hospital here in the Northeast. They only treat autistic children/young adults and so far it has been great. Prior to that his pediatrician was prescribing his citalopram and clonidine (for sleep issues). So you definitely can just have a prescribing doctor and no therapy. Again, I'm really sorry you felt judged and belittled. I know how hard anxiety can be and it's so painful to watch our kids struggle and feel helpless.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ahhjeez, post: 718922, member: 16999"] I'm really sorry that you and your daughter felt so judged. That's not cool at all and I don't blame you for not wanting to go through it again. Both my son and husband are autistic. My son was in play therapy for many years from the time he was probably 3 to 10 or so. She worked a lot on social skills with my son. He was her first autistic kiddo and she became very interested in children on the spectrum and eventually began working exclusively with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) kids. She was really wonderful with him. Very nurturing and kind and was kind of winging it therapy wise. She did a lot of role playing, social stories, work on his anxiety and even brushing if she thought he needed it. This was all in conjunction with anxiety medications that we started at about the age of 3 or so as he began having issues with phobias and Occupational Therapist (OT) both privately and through the school. His functioning was quite impacted and the medications made a big difference. That being said, that's just my son. Every autistic person is different. We tried therapy again after a disastrous senior year of hs. It was not a good fit. The therapist didn't have a really good handle on autistic people and was intent on trying to force social interactions on B. Finally B just said to me "Mom why is he trying to change who I am?" That was it. We were done. I don't ever want him to feel bad for who he is because he's awesome. : ) He does see a psychiatrist for medications now. She works out of an autism center that is a division of a major hospital here in the Northeast. They only treat autistic children/young adults and so far it has been great. Prior to that his pediatrician was prescribing his citalopram and clonidine (for sleep issues). So you definitely can just have a prescribing doctor and no therapy. Again, I'm really sorry you felt judged and belittled. I know how hard anxiety can be and it's so painful to watch our kids struggle and feel helpless. [/QUOTE]
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