Anonymous

[Our child] is the child we knew was in there, fighting to get out. We can breathe again. My 4-year-old son has been working with Andrew Amigo for 2 months. We have been struggling with our son’s behavioral issues for over 2 years. We were given multiple diagnoses: Autism (Asperger’s), Oppositional Defiance Disorder (ODD), Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) and Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD). We had to switch schools because of multiple biting incidents that required a full-time employee to shadow our son all day at school. Once we switched schools his behavior improved at school, but our 2-year-old son and we, his parents and caregivers, continued to endure consistent daily incidents of biting, kicking, hitting and pushing—all of these—every day. Every single thing that happened, from him waking up in the morning to getting dressed to eating breakfast to changing his diaper to dressing to leave the house to getting in the car to strapping him in to arriving at a destination, was a major struggle complete with kicking, screaming, biting, hitting and throwing. Life became unbearable. The saddest part was seeing him so uncomfortable in his own skin. He had these lovely moments where we could see our son, but they were brief and all too rare. We eventually stopped all play dates, all parties (birthday and otherwise), all visits to the playground and parks and anywhere he might have an interaction with another child, including visits with his cousins and closest friends. We were at a loss and our life had come to a crushing halt—the worst part being that no one understood what we were going through, not even his therapists. To this day I’ve never met another child with the same issues that ours’ struggled with and I hope I never do.

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