GP experience for autistic son
briancharles5612
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Just wanted to see if I’m not overreacting to this. Took my son to see the Dr today for an ear exam, he’s 3. I explained that he was autistic before the exam, the Dr said he still needed the exam and no alternate strategies offered.
I had my boy viced as best I could. I was instructed to put one arm around his arms and the other on his head. He screamed and wriggled furiously. It was horrible as the Dr was telling me to do better. They just about got an exam and told me that was the most my boy “would let them do”. I remember his audiologist saying you don’t want to traumatise him so much the next Dr won’t be able to examine him. This Dr definitely didn’t believe that.
I had my boy viced as best I could. I was instructed to put one arm around his arms and the other on his head. He screamed and wriggled furiously. It was horrible as the Dr was telling me to do better. They just about got an exam and told me that was the most my boy “would let them do”. I remember his audiologist saying you don’t want to traumatise him so much the next Dr won’t be able to examine him. This Dr definitely didn’t believe that.
I was also told, as he needed a referral elsewhere, that he would be noted as being difficult to examine during this appointment and all 3 year olds dislike their ears being examined. I felt that was the typical autism gives him no special needs comment.
i left feeling like an awful parent and my boy was seen as troublesome by them.
Am I being unfair?
i left feeling like an awful parent and my boy was seen as troublesome by them.
Am I being unfair?
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