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If your child has recently been diagnosed autistic, as my son was in 2003, here's what I want you to know: Learn from me, don't be me. Here are 13 Next Steps For Parents After an Autism Diagnosis.

(Yep, this is going to be a thread.)

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When professionals first started suggesting that my son might be autistic, I reeled. I didn't know anything about autism at the time, except as disability version of a child-stealing bogeyman. When my son's diagnosis was confirmed, I was terrified. 2/
…And then I was depressed. And then I got to work on figuring out how to parent an autistic kid. And then I made a lot of mistakes. And then I rued those mistakes and tried to do better. 3/
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