just don't know what to do about summer

[Guest guest]

I have no idea what to do with my boy this summer. I

see other people talking about putting their ASD kids

in all kinds of programs and I just don't know how they

do it.

He is so *impossible* around other kids. They try to engage

with him and he's actively hostile. Another mom of a HFA

kid speculates that it's because he feels unsuccessful with

socializing. Probably so, but I have no idea what to do about

it. We've done so many interventions and nothing helps. He

just gets worse and worse. The kids he grew up with still

try to play with him, but he's so unpleasant to them, I

don't know how long they'll put up with it.

If it was just that he didn't like people and wanted to be

alone that would be one thing, but I know that's not true.

I think he's horribly lonely and he's only going to get

lonelier.

We get 48 hours of respite care a month, which isn't really

enough to send someone with him as an aide.

Willa

mom of Bam, 7 1/2, HFA