Reddit reviews Let Me Hear Your Voice: A Family's Triumph over Autism

I'm a woman and I've done this. I was also about 7 years in when I made this decision.

First of all, make yourself comfortable with birth control. I became an expert on that, because as much as I love children, there was NO way in hell I was going to increase my jail time with an Ooopsie.

Like LostinAlaska said, focus on being a dad. It's what I did. Which was a good thing because special needs cropped up and I had to become my child's everything, since I don't have the kind of money [Catherine Maurice] (https://www.amazon.com/Let-Me-Hear-Your-Voice/dp/0449906647) had. You're not here for her, you're for the kids. However, I was polite, caring and respectful and still am, because he also upheld his part of the unspoken deal.

Also became good friends with myself, took long walks, hikes, got into a lot of hobbies. Reached out to people and took an interest in their lives. Keeping busy is very solid to help you forget some things. It was a very lonely time in my life, like "husband passed out drunk on New Year's Eve, kid sleeping, while you're all alone" lonely) yet I've mostly good memories because of that friendship with myself.

The difficulty arose when things improved into the teenage years and my child didn't need me as much anymore. It became impossible to ignore my libido anymore. (This happens to a lot of people, that's why you see so many divorces when kids turn 12-16). So I separated while remaining very involved in my child's life, because I didn't want to go behind his back. (No judgment for those who do, that's just me.)

Here comes the hardest part. You will become the bad man. She's going to hate you and try to make you look bad to the kids and just about everyone. It's important to remain calm, polite and keep being a good dad and all around a reliable, hard working person. After a while people have a hard time taking them seriously, when they know you to be a top notch person and no wild stories about you having drinking infused orgies and then passing out in urin soaked pants are circulating around.

Doesn't his school provide the ABA as part of his FAPE? It seems when my son was younger, he had his own classroom aide-and she spent a lot of time with him in what I suppose was basically incidental ABA. We just made it part of our regular time with him.

The first book I read about autism after his diagnosis happened to be Let Me Hear Your Voice and it had an appendix which helped a lot in working with my son using ABA

But we also may've been broke enough to qualify-3 kids, one job, and he receives SSI.