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Disclosure of Autism – Part Two

I've been discussing disclosure of autism in my last three blogs. Should you disclosure and to whom? In my first blog I discovered how another parent views disclosing her son's autism and added my personal views. In my second blog, I discussed a recent encounter with a mother of a child on the autism spectrum.…

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Disclosure of Autism Part One

More on this concept of disclosure. I am the mother of an eleven-year-old with autism. I have been relatively open about my sonʼs autism for most of his life (he began services at fifteen months of age). What do I mean about "open?" What I mean is that I normally don't shy away from discussing…

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To Disclose Autism or Not?

To Disclose Autism or Not?   What do strangers deserve to know? When was the first time we disclosed our son’s autism? Honestly, only one or two people knew about my son’s autism for the first, well, two years. Yep, that’s right. We kept it to ourselves. And, then we disclosed only to family. Then,…