Thread. I think being a parent to autistic children requires a very different set of parenting skills. I started out classical parenting in 2001. It made my life (& theirs) very hard and miserable indeed 🙈 I examine what I now realise I really needed below. I had to shapeshift

Foreword. I didn’t find out I was autistic until 2017. Many of my kids were not even diagnosed themselves and it’s hard to respond right when you don’t even know or understand what you are even working with 🙈 anyway I realised . . .