Lifted me up this. My lad only got diagnosed in April at the age of 15. He'd been dismissed as having anything up by previous doctors. He was then given Melotonin to help him sleep, a weighted blanket to stop him waking up again in the middle of the night. His "triad of impairments" was worst in social settings and has spent literally years in his room despite our encouragement he often felt the loneliest person as he got bullied at school and would invent illnessess not to go. He also started seeing clowns - which I thought myself he was making up - but apparently the mind can see anything it wants to help it cope - he said he did find it comforting in a strange way. Now he's been at college for 3 months and is loving it. He's got new friends and while i've had to reign him in for his own good e.g. going to the otherside of town and getting off his rocks with his mates (weed) and me then having to pick him up its something we all go through as youngsters. I have been doing my best to make him at least try to see things from the perspective of others just so he doesn't offend or make life more difficult for people. It can be very hard work and sometimes I just can't engage with him as he usually only wants to talk about The Flash, Superman, Weed, Seth Rogen or Star Wars. But his life is slowly turning round for the better. He is only 16 after all and i'm feeling a lot more positive about his future than I used to.
