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How to handle family members who deny your child's diagnosis

My mother-in-law keeps sending me articles about diet cures for autism and I have asked her to stop but she says she is just trying to help and my husband will not back me up.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The refusal to accept neurodivergence as permanent creates ongoing conflict between hope as denial and hope as acceptance.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Parenting a child with disability or neurodivergence?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.