Parenting a Family with Autism Spectrum Disorder (My Perfect Family: The Priestleys) - By Lumos Learning
00:01 | a family trying to raise three autistic Children in a | |
00:09 | society that really struggles to understand what autism is is | |
00:13 | really hard . Most people wouldn't understand how much time | |
00:17 | and effort that goes into creating a good life for | |
00:20 | these young people come back because we don't want our | |
00:25 | Children living a life excluded from things . The more | |
00:30 | people understand autism , the better our society is going | |
00:34 | to be . Oh , yeah , you can . | |
00:51 | Just for you . That's stopping you guys not even | |
00:54 | interested in . I'm an amazing family and exceptional Children | |
01:00 | . They may technically sit on the autism spectrum , | |
01:03 | but to me they just got their own specialties . | |
01:06 | They're all incredibly gifted . Sophie . She's really funny | |
01:12 | and really outgoing . She's on the spectrum , Harry | |
01:17 | his mind . His mind is constantly going . He's | |
01:20 | on the spectrum . I don't know that Liam . | |
01:24 | He's my oldest son . He's very high functioning autistic | |
01:28 | , so he's very clever . Con is exceptionally fit | |
01:32 | and sporty . He loves to play soccer . He's | |
01:35 | not on the spectrum . Maybe you just think about | |
01:41 | food . Rachel . She's my loving wife . She's | |
01:45 | the rock that holds us all together . She's always | |
01:48 | thinking about everyone else . Without that , we wouldn't | |
01:51 | be able to have such a tight family . I | |
01:54 | guess it's just a busy six person family , and | |
01:58 | I'm acutely aware that we probably don't seem a typical | |
02:02 | autistic , disabled family . And actually , there's so | |
02:07 | much that goes on and families who are raising Children | |
02:11 | who have autism but don't meet those stereotypical labels who | |
02:15 | are getting on with life . Most of the time | |
02:18 | he just have a few barriers to to overcome . | |
02:21 | But as a family , we think about autism as | |
02:24 | a strength and not to be embarrassed about . For | |
02:29 | me , autism is great . I think , um | |
02:33 | , I get all of the benefits of it . | |
02:35 | You know , I can learn really quick . I | |
02:37 | can take information really well . But , um , | |
02:44 | I guess there are some downsides to I get this | |
02:47 | , you know , that stereotypical can't read people . | |
02:50 | They are not looking into people's eyes because it's weird | |
02:53 | feeling . Um , and I think the missing some | |
03:00 | stuff just kind of makes a bit hard . Got | |
03:02 | all these Children were not One of them is helping | |
03:04 | doing any cleaning . He went wrong somewhere . Part | |
03:08 | of me . Well , the Children doing the cleaning | |
03:11 | go and get them there . Oh , pick your | |
03:16 | battles . Yeah . Yeah , Liam as my first | |
03:21 | baby , and you don't know anything other than what | |
03:24 | you get given , I guess . And I just | |
03:26 | thought that Children at two and three could draw schematics | |
03:30 | and he could talk in these really complex sentences and | |
03:34 | had these really adult type thoughts . So we had | |
03:38 | him tested to find out what this intelligence was , | |
03:42 | and I think it was at that point they mentioned | |
03:44 | I this He might be on the spectrum because of | |
03:46 | the way he responds to questions about emotions and things | |
03:49 | slightly different , hardest part about autism . For me | |
03:53 | , I don't understand people and their feelings . It's | |
03:58 | often not do something , and then someone will say | |
04:01 | to me , He was like , Why didn't you | |
04:02 | think about that ? I'm like , Well , I | |
04:05 | can't really Yeah , I'm hurting people's feelings . You | |
04:08 | said I'm very sad . We're still learning the rules | |
04:13 | of social engagement and that social awkwardness . What do | |
04:17 | you say when somebody says that , or how do | |
04:20 | you respond to a situation that's pretty true ? He's | |
04:25 | a pretty good older brother . Oh , no . | |
04:29 | What does that make you feel that I've been lied | |
04:32 | to betrayed ? William and Connor have always been a | |
04:36 | type where Unit Connor is just your average Kiwi boy | |
04:40 | and he's so empathetic and so not on the spectrum | |
04:45 | . This is my drinking box . It's one of | |
04:48 | everything in the world . See , Harry is diagnosed | |
04:53 | with autism and a D . H . D . | |
04:56 | I probably use the expression to describe Harry as the | |
04:59 | most impacted by his autism from Papua New Guinea , | |
05:07 | which is , um , is like I have superpowers | |
05:10 | , but no superpowers . I've got really good smell | |
05:13 | and hearing and sometimes really annoying , because then I | |
05:16 | can smell the ants and I can't hear my own | |
05:22 | voice , So I can't hear how loud I am | |
05:24 | or quiet I am . And it's really annoying for | |
05:28 | family . I just do squiggles , and they drop | |
05:32 | flowers on them . Combat uniforms . When Sophie was | |
05:40 | three or four , she was doing some really typical | |
05:43 | autistic things , lining up animals in a really regimented | |
05:48 | way . She will mask a lot of the stuff | |
05:52 | that's going on for her . She gets really confused | |
05:57 | about what's happening in social situations , and then when | |
06:00 | she'll get home like a bottle of lemonade being shaken | |
06:03 | up , and when you open it , it all | |
06:05 | just explodes . I noticed at school that she would | |
06:09 | react to situations which were difficult . She got deeply | |
06:14 | affected by things that shouldn't really have been so important | |
06:17 | . She would sort of fly off the handle a | |
06:19 | lot easier . And other kids . Autism makes me | |
06:23 | feel different and special was part about autism is , | |
06:31 | and it's hard to get along people . As the | |
06:39 | kids were getting diagnosed , the more we found out | |
06:41 | about it , the more I started to realize that | |
06:43 | that was me when I was a child . They | |
06:46 | didn't really understand autism very well . 30 years ago | |
06:50 | , I was just kind of a naughty , smart | |
06:52 | kid . I haven't really been formally diagnosed , so | |
06:57 | I was kind of in trouble a lot . And | |
06:59 | I started realizing , you know , I'm not really | |
07:01 | very empathetic . And , yeah , I could be | |
07:05 | very blunt , and even now it's still still the | |
07:08 | same for me . I still find a struggle with | |
07:10 | it . Sometimes I can explain all my bad behavior | |
07:13 | , but all of my behavior , um , but | |
07:17 | I don't really care . I'm a planner and an | |
07:30 | organizer , and I run this house like a bit | |
07:33 | of a military operation , which is a bit of | |
07:35 | a joke , but it's what it needs to happen | |
07:38 | for it to run really smoothly . Yeah . No | |
07:42 | , these are just jackets , I think . Oh | |
07:45 | , so I don't know . I usually get up | |
07:48 | , get things started . Harry's next up . Then | |
07:51 | we just do it piece by piece by piece . | |
07:56 | Welcome . Usually it's pretty calm , and I try | |
08:00 | and keep it really relaxed because I feel like my | |
08:03 | job in the morning is to get the Children to | |
08:06 | school . In the best possible mindset . We have | |
08:10 | a critical system , man . Connor sleeping . You | |
08:13 | guys do the work . We get up , eat | |
08:16 | some food , annoy everybody , go back to bed | |
08:19 | . Then you guys complain that we're not being useful | |
08:22 | enough . Then these guys go to school and kind | |
08:24 | of finally get up . Then we get our stuff | |
08:27 | ready and then we go to school . I probably | |
08:30 | do a lot more in the mornings for the Children | |
08:34 | , but there's about that much that they can do | |
08:37 | in a day , and you want that much to | |
08:39 | be stuff that's going to be in their learning environment | |
08:42 | . Where's your school bag ? Harry and Sophie , | |
08:46 | you struggle to go to school most weeks , so | |
08:50 | most people wouldn't understand how much time and effort that | |
08:53 | goes into all day . Well , the doors are | |
08:56 | frozen shut . So we probably don't appear to be | |
09:00 | anything different to most families , which is a great | |
09:03 | thing . But at the same time , people aren't | |
09:06 | as compassionate as understanding when things do go wrong . | |
09:09 | So we probably a pair is this big family with | |
09:13 | these really naughty Children a lot of the time or | |
09:16 | a family who are making excuses for their child's behavior | |
09:23 | . All right , love . Come on . Come | |
09:26 | on . Okay . Good girl . You all right | |
09:32 | ? Climb out and everyone's gone . Okay ? Every | |
09:36 | day . Not beautiful . You go . That's life | |
09:41 | . I've got to go to work . Come on | |
09:43 | . Okay . Come out . Sophie Rice . No | |
09:49 | . Now I need to go to work . Come | |
09:50 | on . So out . You can't sit in the | |
09:56 | car all day . You've got to take them to | |
09:58 | the office now . Okay , That's your job . | |
10:02 | You go . You're gonna take Hunter to the office | |
10:05 | . Bye . Come back . Mhm . This is | |
10:16 | before , all right . You have a good time | |
10:24 | for me . Well , I do not like scope | |
10:27 | because socializing at school it's hard because everyone there thinks | |
10:37 | some differences . They don't want to play with me | |
10:39 | . Really ? Sophie has a lot of rules to | |
10:45 | how life should be . And that is a struggle | |
10:48 | sometimes because she has lots of rules around friendships and | |
10:51 | her friends have to follow her rules . And little | |
10:53 | girls don't want to follow another little girl's rules all | |
10:57 | the time . And also the ability to gauge a | |
11:01 | situation or know what to say isn't something that comes | |
11:04 | naturally . Some of these skills have to be learned | |
11:07 | . So if you can imagine if you're having a | |
11:09 | conversation with somebody , and I know how to instantly | |
11:11 | react if you start to get sad . But for | |
11:15 | Liam , Harry and Sophie doesn't come naturally , they're | |
11:19 | really thinking about how should I respond ? So that's | |
11:23 | what Dawn teaches them . I'm a behavioral consultant , | |
11:28 | and I work with Children with learning needs . But | |
11:30 | I specialist with Children with autism , Sophie is more | |
11:34 | high anxiety . A lot of girls present quite differently | |
11:38 | to boys , and they mask their autism really well | |
11:41 | because they mimic other Children . They will stand on | |
11:44 | the periphery . They will watch what the other Children | |
11:47 | are doing , and then they will copy what they're | |
11:49 | doing . Mhm . What a week ! Last year | |
11:56 | she really struggled , so I worked with her to | |
11:58 | find out exactly what was wrong , and one of | |
12:01 | the big things was she couldn't decide on who to | |
12:03 | choose to play with . She found playing with too | |
12:06 | many girls at once was overwhelming . The noise was | |
12:09 | too much . The choices of games was too much | |
12:11 | . Following the rules was too much . So what | |
12:14 | we did , we spoke to the girls and asked | |
12:16 | them if they would be happy for us to put | |
12:18 | in a play chart of who she would play with | |
12:21 | each day . And that really helps . Sophie and | |
12:23 | her friends will really understanding . And now we don't | |
12:26 | have to do that . She can just go out | |
12:27 | and play , and she can cope with it by | |
12:29 | herself . Okay , The last thing to Antonio , | |
12:39 | what do you need to do once he's finished ? | |
12:42 | If you missed the says , I had to finish | |
12:44 | my art because everyone I just finished Migliorato . Harry | |
12:47 | is really clever and bright child . He's very passionate | |
12:53 | about animals nature . He does have troubles in the | |
12:58 | classroom with particular things such as noise surprises . If | |
13:03 | he's not sure what's happening , then it can overwhelm | |
13:05 | him . But he's got strategies that we work on | |
13:08 | to help him adapt to those things ? No . | |
13:12 | Yeah , This is my calm down and this is | |
13:17 | my massage . What is that like , you know | |
13:22 | , just in case he likes using his hands . | |
13:26 | If he's feeling overwhelmed or tired , him being able | |
13:30 | to go to that box really helps him just to | |
13:32 | kind of get into a good space . We had | |
13:35 | one incident last year where Harry was really upset . | |
13:39 | He couldn't go into class in the morning and we | |
13:41 | couldn't work out what it was . And it turned | |
13:43 | out that Harry has got high sensory needs and his | |
13:47 | sense of smell is really , really large . And | |
13:50 | he can smell aunts . And there were ants in | |
13:52 | the classroom . So we had to get rid of | |
13:54 | these ants before we could get him back in the | |
13:55 | classroom . Harry goes to a mainstream school , and | |
14:02 | I am adamant that he has the opportunity to mix | |
14:05 | with his peers . And it's good for other Children | |
14:09 | to learn what autism is . And how do you | |
14:13 | support somebody with autism ? Because the more people understand | |
14:17 | him and other people like him , the better our | |
14:19 | society is going to be . 3123 Mhm . Alright | |
14:27 | . Children in about 20 minutes . We're going in | |
14:31 | here . That's that . No . One is . | |
14:33 | Rachel Paul Helper is a residential provider . We provide | |
14:37 | a range of living solutions for adults and disabilities . | |
14:41 | So my role is to meet new families that have | |
14:44 | expressed an interest in getting hold , happy to support | |
14:48 | them , doing something different . And how do you | |
14:50 | make that all work and this incredibly confusing system of | |
14:54 | funding and housing and rules and regulations and how to | |
14:57 | pull that all together because it needs a person to | |
15:00 | make that all kind of happen ? About seven years | |
15:05 | ago , when Harry was diagnosed with autism , I | |
15:08 | was just getting turned away all the time every time | |
15:10 | I tried to advocate for what they needed or what | |
15:14 | I thought they needed . So I thought , Right | |
15:16 | and I just need a bigger piece of paper than | |
15:18 | a mum , and I always kind of had an | |
15:20 | interest in social work . So I did my social | |
15:22 | work qualifications through messy by distance . I'm extremely proud | |
15:28 | that she's managed doing a degree and raising these Children | |
15:32 | and raising me as well , and she's working in | |
15:37 | a similar sort of area . I think she finds | |
15:40 | it really rewarding and fulfilling . She's doing a great | |
15:43 | job . So this is L J Assembly . This | |
15:48 | is where we assemble the large jets . So I | |
15:51 | designed the control systems which actuated and make it move | |
15:55 | . And then this is controlled by the guys on | |
16:00 | the bridge , which would privatize the boat with . | |
16:03 | I've always worked with boats for 20 years . I've | |
16:06 | worked in defense on the ANZAC frigates and protect the | |
16:10 | class ships designing electrical systems for those being on the | |
16:14 | spectrum . I've got quite a good ability to visualize | |
16:17 | things in my head , so I can generally see | |
16:20 | the problems before they occur . With Aiden's job , | |
16:25 | he has to travel a lot , so I parent | |
16:28 | alone for about 10 weeks of the year . So | |
16:32 | as a family , we're learning really quickly . It's | |
16:34 | about the right people that surround us . Hey , | |
16:38 | hold for our family , having a break is really | |
16:45 | tricky because there's not many people that can manage the | |
16:49 | complexity of three Children with autism . And then you're | |
16:52 | adding change , and then you're putting in somebody that | |
16:54 | they might not know or trust . It's often a | |
16:58 | recipe for failure . Until we met , big lamb | |
17:02 | and big Lamb showed that if you have the right | |
17:05 | carer in place . You can actually have brakes . | |
17:09 | And last year , agent and I had all first | |
17:12 | night away as a couple . After 14 years or | |
17:15 | something crazy , I'm yeah , I hope it's going | |
17:23 | to get hit . Stop being a carer , especially | |
17:26 | with kids of the young age . I feel like | |
17:28 | you've really got to just be yourself because they can | |
17:30 | see right through . You know , Mom doesn't like | |
17:33 | Dad putting up posters . Imagine if Sam was like | |
17:39 | that . You would die . You live on your | |
17:42 | Harry . He's just a wild boy . You'll just | |
17:44 | go and go and go . Try and take it | |
17:45 | for a walk or go for a swing or swim | |
17:47 | or anything like that just to burn off some energy | |
17:49 | . And then I mean Sophie . She's brutally honest | |
17:53 | , you know , he walks up to school today | |
17:54 | , so I don't like the haircut . I liked | |
17:55 | it longer . You know , the first thing she | |
17:57 | noticed . We talk about autistic Children not having a | |
18:02 | filter or Sophie's certainly does that , you know , | |
18:05 | she will tell you exactly what she thinks . If | |
18:08 | you want to hear it or not , and sometimes | |
18:10 | it's okay . She's learning when to think it in | |
18:15 | ahead but not say it out loud . And because | |
18:20 | we can't give her the connector , it's gonna be | |
18:22 | a big hole via our waters . Put little play | |
18:25 | . What I was actually thinking is if we look | |
18:27 | under the bracket , there's a whole so you could | |
18:30 | put under the brake and freed up through the Liam's | |
18:34 | go to Guy for I t in the house . | |
18:36 | Because there are benefits to being on the spectrum . | |
18:40 | Logical thinking nowadays is very important , as everything is | |
18:44 | based around computers and visualization . Things like that being | |
18:47 | able to see in inside your head what something ? | |
18:50 | Well , how it will work , what it looks | |
18:52 | like . So he's learning how to be a plumber | |
18:55 | and an electrician and it engineer , and he's learning | |
18:59 | all of those skills . And he's only 14 . | |
19:01 | Yeah . Hey , Dad . Yeah , I'm going | |
19:05 | to give it a tug . Okay . When I | |
19:08 | met Aiden , he would talk about his adolescence being | |
19:12 | the most challenging part of his life , that social | |
19:15 | awkwardness . Having a parent in the family with autism | |
19:19 | makes this job a lot easier because he can share | |
19:23 | with me how it feels . And I can learn | |
19:26 | from Aden about how he sees things , so just | |
19:33 | hold it there , jiggle it so it will come | |
19:35 | down . Now the boys are sort of coming to | |
19:37 | that teenage age . I can see the potential areas | |
19:42 | where they're going to struggle , because it's easy to | |
19:44 | sort of put behavior down to just being rude . | |
19:47 | Like I've got a learned response to how I need | |
19:49 | to act . Just taken a long time to kind | |
19:52 | of piece together by making mistakes . You know , | |
19:56 | if something goes wrong , you know , I need | |
19:57 | to sort of show some empathy , even though I | |
19:59 | don't really feel it . And this is quite hard | |
20:02 | , especially . That's why you know , I don't | |
20:04 | like large groups of people . I don't like having | |
20:06 | to . I've got to really work hard to think | |
20:08 | about . How do I need to behave ? How | |
20:10 | should I be acting ? Because I might upset people | |
20:12 | and and I can do that quite easily by being | |
20:15 | very blunt . So fortunately , we've got Donna and | |
20:18 | Rachel that very good at seeing the other side . | |
20:24 | Liam has a really nice relationship with a girl from | |
20:28 | his school . They've been together as a couple for | |
20:31 | over a year now , and it's been really , | |
20:34 | really helpful for Liam's growth to work out the rules | |
20:38 | of relationships . Being gay with my girlfriend for about | |
20:42 | a year and its best year of my life . | |
20:44 | Actually , yeah , we have said , I love | |
20:46 | you to each other . I'm pretty sure I understood | |
20:48 | it because it's just , you know , is something | |
20:52 | that you should really understand before you set . It | |
20:55 | was because it takes a lot of thinking time for | |
20:58 | me to actually understand a big thing like that . | |
21:00 | It's physically and emotionally exhausting for me to understand small | |
21:04 | emotions . So I think , yeah , it was | |
21:07 | something that I really meant to do . You want | |
21:11 | to play space engineers play space ? It is . | |
21:14 | No , it's boiling . The self is above it | |
21:17 | . Don't tease him about his overheating laptop . Can | |
21:20 | you give him to do ? Can I service up | |
21:24 | the plane ? No . Come on , it's kind | |
21:28 | of need . As a family , we've got this | |
21:29 | sort of common denominator between a lot of us , | |
21:31 | which also really worries me . It kind of excludes | |
21:34 | Conor a little bit . We have to be really | |
21:37 | careful because we find ourselves putting a lot of effort | |
21:40 | into supporting the other three kids . So I'm very | |
21:43 | aware that he feels like he gets left out . | |
21:46 | Mhm . It is really hard . And I'm so | |
21:49 | mindful that he doesn't get lost in that dizziness of | |
21:52 | three Children with quite strong needs . He just wants | |
21:56 | to be a typical young man and do typical young | |
21:59 | man things . Hello . How are you ? Hi | |
22:04 | , Auntie . And she is incredible to this family | |
22:08 | . She gives on a 1 to 1 time . | |
22:10 | It's really focused all about him . So once a | |
22:14 | week , he goes out on a sad day for | |
22:16 | the entire day , go and play soccer . And | |
22:18 | then they'd go off and do the market and fixing | |
22:21 | cars and then come home . So it was a | |
22:22 | really nice break for him . It's orange . Hey | |
22:29 | , get some cake . You need the energy . | |
22:31 | Well done , Justin . Now , this woman here | |
22:35 | is amazing because her and her husband , they come | |
22:40 | early . They put up the tent today . They're | |
22:41 | running a barbecue . Last time I think they paid | |
22:43 | for the sausages and bread . Yeah , they bring | |
22:45 | common to all these games . She is an amazing | |
22:48 | lady . Uh huh . Mhm Yummy snack . I | |
23:01 | was thinking you guys have both been so good today | |
23:05 | that I was thinking about doing a no rules . | |
23:07 | Night . Mhm . Uh huh . What's new roles | |
23:15 | for you , sir ? One night , I was | |
23:20 | just so tired of no rules . And as long | |
23:24 | as you guys are doing the right thing , I'm | |
23:26 | not gonna see any roles . All of a sudden | |
23:29 | , we had these really well behaved Children that weren't | |
23:31 | fighting with each other and having a whole lot of | |
23:33 | fun . And I'm getting a break , and it | |
23:36 | just worked . Mhm . Yeah , that's what you | |
23:42 | want . Yeah . See these loops ? We can | |
23:51 | use these , and then we just need to get | |
23:56 | this slope . We have nature play school one day | |
24:00 | a week . I was aware that in the New | |
24:03 | Zealand legislation , Children can attend a different school one | |
24:07 | day a week . We've also learned that hair and | |
24:10 | Sophie clearly don't enjoy going to school five days a | |
24:13 | week . So I started to look for what would | |
24:16 | be the right fit for them to have a break | |
24:18 | and do what they love to do , which is | |
24:20 | to have no rules and to be free . And | |
24:23 | for Harry in particular , he loves bugs and birds | |
24:28 | . Yeah , Guys , we need this to be | |
24:31 | , like , super tight . You're really happy don't | |
24:33 | . I need you to progress again . Do you | |
24:39 | get off ? So with our nature based play programs | |
24:42 | , all our curriculum is looked at from both a | |
24:46 | sensory child development point of view as well as an | |
24:48 | education and fun point of view . So it's a | |
24:50 | bit more holistic with what we have Children doing throughout | |
24:53 | the day with a really nice balance of some intentional | |
24:56 | teaching and a lot of child lead play . Three | |
25:01 | people on this side , three people on this side | |
25:06 | . Okay , Nature school is really cool because there's | |
25:11 | Kim . She brings in tools and Amazon swords and | |
25:15 | stuff like that , and we cut down the dead | |
25:17 | trees . There was a bora we saw to Bora | |
25:23 | . There was heaps of who holds as well , | |
25:25 | and if you touch , the tree just fell into | |
25:27 | dust . Some of the tree fell into dust . | |
25:32 | Sophie has really hooked in with another girl that's here | |
25:39 | , and they are on their own mission . A | |
25:41 | lot of the time they have been quite creative and | |
25:44 | expressive , and they both have a passion for mud | |
25:47 | . They just go as fun really is really cool | |
25:51 | . And she's my best friend . Definitely an incredible | |
25:57 | , and there's been benefits that I didn't anticipate finding | |
26:00 | our village . We had this amazing community of very | |
26:03 | similar minded parents who were open and accepting of a | |
26:08 | little bit different , a little bit quirky . And | |
26:10 | these are all things that are really critical to their | |
26:13 | success as being an adult . But it takes a | |
26:17 | huge amount of time and effort to find those resources | |
26:21 | . And you also have to spend a lot of | |
26:23 | time talking to people because there is no resource in | |
26:26 | the community that says , Here are all the options | |
26:29 | that you could choose . Yeah , Okay , come | |
26:38 | on , come on . He's got chili in it | |
26:40 | . No . So every Friday , Auntie and Uncle | |
26:43 | come and have dinner . And maybe now and then | |
26:45 | we have other people over and just say thanks . | |
26:48 | Thank you for the hard work around , puts and | |
26:50 | helps us out . So tonight we've got big lips | |
26:52 | and science Sarah here as well . Also curious . | |
27:01 | Without Rachel's never ending efforts to keep the family working | |
27:05 | smoothly , we wouldn't be in this situation . She | |
27:08 | pulls off this amazing achievement of raising all of us | |
27:11 | and helping us the family grow mhm . Autism has | |
27:16 | taught me that everybody has their own view on their | |
27:20 | own life . I think having a lived experience of | |
27:26 | disability makes me a richer person . And I'm super | |
27:31 | proud of all my Children . I'm really excited about | |
27:34 | the future because I think for all of the kids | |
27:37 | , that's going to be something pretty incredible . I | |
27:40 | couldn't be more proud of my Children . I think | |
27:42 | they're all incredibly gifted . It would be a boring | |
27:47 | life of that . Having some autistic kids . Yeah | |
27:53 | . Mm . Yeah , yeah . Mhm . |
DESCRIPTION:
In the Priestley family, three of four children have been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Though Dad, Aidan, was never diagnosed as a child - he too has come to recognise his symptoms through his children and appreciate the value that an earlier diagnosis may have had. The family are high-functioning, and many of those on the outside either donât see or misunderstand their struggles. But behind the scenes we see the daily effort that goes into navigating the world more comfortably.
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