Ds1 is 6 has high functioning autism.. Ds2 4 and nt.
I have always worried about the impact on ds2 of having a brother with autism and am finding there are lots of things, positive and negative which I just hadn't anticipated.
I.e. Ds2 is really emotionally intelligent which I put down, at least partly, to spending so much of his time around autistic children.(I think the other part is just my awe that he can do those things and how easily it can come to nt children)
He is also really worried about strangers because ds1 is so vulnerable and would literally walk off with a stranger at any point and apparently all my banging on about it to ds1 has had no effect on him but has really worried ds2
Same with roads, ds1 would, and has, tried to touch a moving car and walked out in front of moving traffic. I bang on about it, net effect, no change in ds1, ds2 really worried.
I don't know what to do about those things, I can't not try and prevent ds1 from killing himself in the road but don't want ds2 even more worried.
I am wondering what impacts you see and how you deal with it? I just didn't expect trying to help one child to hurt and upset the other.
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Mercythompson · 11/08/2014 16:08
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