If you homeschool, how do you deal with the attacks on how you choose to socialize your child? IE they couldn't possibly make friends and deal with other kids outside the public school. I have told and told relatives my dd is in sports and Girl Scouts, but no matter what I say they counter with how it is not good enough. I am beginning to think these conversations are pointless, especially with people who do not understand or know the first thing about autism. No matter how difficult or miserable the kid is keep them in the public school is this person's motto. And she has plenty of examples of how total misery was beneficial in the end.
I'm sure everyone who homeschools faces the same drill.
I'm sure everyone who homeschools faces the same drill.
Where you can be there to exert some force on the situtation. There's one or two teachers on the playground watching tons of kids. They are just stopping kids from being injured, they are not directing socially approriate interactions. Kids with autism often don't understand things like personal space or may have behaviors (like arm flapping) that appear odd to others who will have no problem saying so in the cruelest ways. This situation came up in t ball with us. The coaches saw it and so did the parents and they were all over that. Meaness stopped. On the playground, that would have just gone on, because it didn't involve anything more serious than hurt feelings on my child's part.
