Autism Boards Online

As Dakota has grown and now exited  or aged out of School  have found that many of the Autism Boards ( support groups) that are on line don't really line up with my perspective or needs BUT I stay connected and watch them on a once a week basis just to make sure there's nothing I am missing.

Caviot: on Yahoo under "Health" they have several groups that cater to specific diagnosis or  group of people with a common needs and questions...once you put Autism in the search it will pop up probably 100 different options.....you can pick and choose what suits your needs


Ok back to my post, every once in awhile a subject pops up that interests me ....recently there was a mom who was having trouble with trying to find appropriate placement and was considering a "non public" school setting....my response was  often the non public classrooms are more of a nightmare and even worse for our kids...perhaps the better option was to try to work in the district to find a better class and a better teacher . The bigger message from me was this our kids spend about 12 to 16 years in school only to leave with a certificate of Completion NOT A DIPLOMA yet most all of them will live out in the community for the better part of 60 years after school and there is nothing, NOTHING out there, no supports no laws nothing to help. You can spend your energy fighting the schools and the districts become exhausted ,listless ,2 steps forward  only to go 1and a half steps back  and when schools over all they do is wave bye bye ....

I guess my point and the purpose of the this post about the online groups is that there is all kinds of information and choices,wonderful success stories and horrible tragedies ..many of them can help .  Just think that they are like anything else where you have to keep perspective of what they can offer...there are some who judge accordion to whether you do and say the same as they do, there are others that you can write and ask questions and no one will ever respond .

Use it as a tool , but always be guided by your own intuition ...