Head above the parapet
This is a very strange feeling! I’ve wanted to create a blog about being a dad to an autistic child for awhile now but now that it comes down to it I’m hesitant to know exactly what to put in this very first post!
My daughter is diagnosed with Kanner’s autism and has had that diagnosis since she was three years old. I guess that’s a good start. I’m not going to be giving much away about where we live, or our names and ages as I’ve been lurking on other blogs for long enough to see that the online autism community is not a happy place to be sometimes. So why join it? I just think I should. I’m going to keep lots of things private and that makes me feel a bit more secure and happy about doing this.
I don’t really know what I’ll be talking about. I have things that I feel strongly about and I have things I’m curious about and I hope that I get enough of a readership to be able to get some good opinions. Education, social attitudes, stigma, treatments and I guess the hottest topic of al right now – vaccines.
Anyway, this is a start, lets see what happens.
Welcome to blogging. You will have my support. I will be back checking on your blogs because I know that you will do well. Good luck to you!
Posted 1 year, 11 months agoWas she literally diagnosed with “Kanner’s autism”? That Dx isn’t in the DSM. How old is she? (If that is a question you don’t want to answer that’s cool, maybe you could round it off to the decade she was born in…. or not, your choice, just curious.) Welcome to the online autism community, your take on it is quite correct.
Posted 1 year, 11 months agoHi-
Posted 1 year, 11 months agoI think “Kanner’s Autism” is a reference to autistic disorder as opposed to other spectrum diagnoses such as Asperger’s and PDD-NOS. That’s how I interpreted it since we (as a culture) are using the word Autism to refer to all types of PDD.
I look forward to reading your upcoming blogs!
Wow! Word gets around quickly! Thanks for everyone’s comments.
Jypsy, I think Beth is correct. I use ‘Kanner’ to differentiate the diagnosis she has from that of AS or PDD-NOS. Not that I want to imply these are not ‘autism’ of course! She is less than ten years old, lets say that
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Oh dear, now I feel guilty for being so mysterious. I hope nobody takes it the wrong way. Its just that I witnessed what happened to another autism dad’s blog I used to read and I don’t want to put my daughter (or myself!) through what happened there.
Posted 1 year, 11 months ago