even though my children are not ASD, is that quite a bit of what you write is still applicable. I have seen the same sort of dynamic with my children at younger ages, where the risk was of people who didn't understand insisting on behavior that they just weren't ready/capable/developed enough yet.
If I can remember the Perl Buck (great author, English Missionary child during the Boxer Rebellion) quote it went something like "The Chinese believed that there were stages to development, and trying to force a child to behave before they'd reached the stage where that was possible would only hurt the child and frustrate everyone" (This was quite a contrast to the English concept of "discipline" as practiced at the time).
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Date: 2010-10-25 01:32 pm (UTC)If I can remember the Perl Buck (great author, English Missionary child during the Boxer Rebellion) quote it went something like "The Chinese believed that there were stages to development, and trying to force a child to behave before they'd reached the stage where that was possible would only hurt the child and frustrate everyone" (This was quite a contrast to the English concept of "discipline" as practiced at the time).