mamarhu- I really appreciate your post. I kind of feel the same about some things with my son. I'll never really know whether the feeding tube saved his life, or whether he would have just started eating on his own. I don't know for sure if it was the speech therapy that caused his speaking to improve, or again if that would have happened on its own. I think all we can do as parents is make the choices that seem best to us, love our kids, and believe in them. With a sample size of one, there is just no way to know for sure what causes what. We're going in for an eval soon and hopefully getting some help in supporting him with some of his sensory stuff. I'm not doing this because I'm sure it's THE ANSWER, but because I've had to become reconciled to the fact that in parenting there is often not a clear path, I have to live with ambiguity, and do my best. I can't predict the outcomes, like you said, but reading the testamonies of teens with ASD helps me to accept my kid as he is, in this moment.
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1/16/12 at 2:05pm
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