Do you have dark circles under your eyes?
Are the prints of your fingernails imbedded in your palms? Are you pouring your breakfast from a bottle with a cork? Do you get nauseated at the sight of a school bag? If you have these symptoms you may have the serious, potentially life shortening syndrome known as Autism School Stress or ASS.
Are the prints of your fingernails imbedded in your palms? Are you pouring your breakfast from a bottle with a cork? Do you get nauseated at the sight of a school bag? If you have these symptoms you may have the serious, potentially life shortening syndrome known as Autism School Stress or ASS.
ASS can cause a parent of a child with autism to feel real pain. And by this time of year the pain in the ASS is quite significant. You may wonder if you can keep going. Is living with this syndrome worth it? But fear not, relief is in sight. The only known treatment for ASS pain is Summer Holidays (SH). Summer Holidays is not a cure but it provides temporary relief of symptoms. Like many treatments SH is not without its side effects. These may include feeling housebound, too much family time and the more serious side effect ICS (inclusion camp stress).
However, when compared to the extreme pain in the ASS caused by school, these symptoms are usually considered quite tolerable. Unfortunately this treatment is not readily available until the third week in June and the symptoms of ASS tend to increase as the year goes on. So hold on fellow ASS suffers. Just another few weeks of suffering and then a whole summer of symptom free living… Although I may still pour my breakfast from a bottle with cork :)
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