From: Sandy <znandra40@...>
Subject: [WSSA] What should we do???
To: WSSA@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 10:20 AM

I couple of weeks ago we received a phone call from Nathans school reporting to us that something serious had happened in school involving Nathan! As you can imagine we rushed to the school were we were told had `attacked a little girl in his class! I was filled with horror at the mere thought of it, luckily the little girl wasn't hurt thank god, but she was upset and crying! so we took him home there and then…after sitting him down and taking to him it turns out that he attacked her because she was just sitting in his `chair'…no one at that point had realized that he had focused so much on his chair (Nathan has many autistic traits)

The following day we had a meeting with his teacher and the special needs teacher etc they reported that even if they move anything around in his class room it upsets and unsettles him for a few days. To cut a long story short the school is pushing us to get some sort of diagnosis for autism or aspersers in relation to Nathans behaviour .

A week later we had an appointment with community paediatrician and she gave us 2 phone numbers to ring even though people who get these numbers usually have a diagnosis (autistic nurse who can put us in touch with various services that can help with this behaviour) now Iv had these numbers for 2 days and I still haven't rang them yet… why? probably because I am frightened of being rejected because Nathan hasn't a diagnosis for autism they may not help us and if they don't…well I just don't know what we will do? ….I'm in such a confused state I didn't know how to react I didn't know what to say to Nathan I even didn't know how to punish him as he does not fully understand what he actually did! I think I need help and some advise…if it was you what would you do in this situation?

Sandy xxx