We have been confined for more than 15 days. And it's our habits that are turned upside down. Sudden changes, sometimes brutal for some of us who need a particular routine, precise benchmarks throughout the day. This is for example the case of people who have behavioral disorders, such as autistic people who are around 600,000 people in France, including 250,000 children.
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While this World Autism Awareness Day is being held this Thursday, April 2, families, sometimes distraught since the establishment of confinement, must thus manage this isolation without the usual care by educational medical centers , without the daily help of specialized educators. Sophie and her relatives are part of it.
At the microphone of Europe 1, this mother of four children, including Zephyr, suffering from autism, testifies to this new situation: "At the beginning, I really said to myself 'it's going to be hell'. Every day, we says: "a checkbox on the calendar" and we held on but it's true that with an autistic child, unpredictability is what scares you the most. Zephyr usually has routines established for years and when there is a break in the routine, he is very easily destabilized so we are on the alert and we try to surround him, to explain things to him, "she explains.
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Despite the difficulties, this new daily also reserved some good surprises for the two parents: "I'm rediscovering a few things that I thought I couldn't do anymore, like asking him to stay at his office for an hour. hadn't done so so that was pretty good news of containment, "she said.
With regard to sporting activity, which has been reduced by confinement measures, the family is also trying to adapt there: "He has an immense need to let off steam, he usually does 6 to 10 km a day outdoors. manages by explaining to him that he has the right to go out running with his dad for an hour and we are lucky to be two parents ", recognizes Sophie, before concluding:" These are special moments but they are also precious because 'we are discovering a new way of working with it and it can also give rise to good surprises ".
In these times of confinement, the "Autisme Info service" platform, which has strengthened its teaching teams, records four times more calls than usual.