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Now Reading: 5 Ways To Be a Pretty Good Special Needs Dad & Husband
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So I have a wife and a 12 year old son with severe, classic, nonverbal autism as well as somewhat severe epilepsy.
If you were the kinda father / husband that went out 3x a week with the fellas, poker one night, golf on Saturday, football on Sunday, then that’s the precedent your family dynamic has set. So when autism or epilepsy or whatever enters your household don’t think your family is looking for you to drop everything, just drop one of them, maybe two on stressful weeks.
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2) Readjust your priorities. If you always pictured yourself as the type of dad who was gonna spend the weekends trapped in your garage working on home improvement projects all day, hopefully eventually with your son, you need to let that go. And you need to evaluate is this home improvement project really necessary or am I using this as an escape from my autism kid & my wife.
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Frank CampagnaI’m a 48 year old neurotypical dad with a 14 year old son with severe, non-verbal autism & epilepsy. I created this blog to rant about autism & epilepsy while celebrating my son who I affectionately call “the king” :-).
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5 People Replies to “5 Ways To Be a Pretty Good Special Needs Dad & Husband”
This is such a great list of advice, I totally agree. Especially numbers 1 2 3 4 & 5 all of those could've saved my marriage!
Escape isn't always wrong or bad. Sometimes, it's a necessity, otherwise you break down.
Thank you so much for your post, in summation my son is 4 and suffers pretty much the same conditions as your son, we have no real support system, between long distance relatives wishing they were here 🙁 and the nearby in denial that there is such a thing as autism D: it is up to us to give all the love and support to our son. For a while my husband has been coming home and feeling he has done his share by providing for us, I became a weeping mess, of exhaustion, anxiety, and depression. I copied your post to my husband and he has made a change. 😀 😀 😀 Tiny things could be such a relief to us Asdy mommies, don't get me wrong my hubby is a great man, he just sometimes overlooks how exhausting our little man can get.
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Nice post. I hope you had a wonderful Father`s Day! Your son and wife are so lucky to have you!