"What suggestions have you tried regarding helping the siblings of your autistic child to have more compassion. When they try to play with our autistic child, it always ends badly as he has to make up and enforce a set of rules for whatever game they are playing at the time - so we are in the position of having to keep them apart." As a mother or father, you want to give all your kids equal attention. But when parenting a youngster with Asperger’s (AS) or High Functioning Autism (HFA), that can be difficult. Your “special needs” youngster has more challenges and obstacles – and may take more of your time. As a result, your other children may begin to feel left out. In addition to feeling left out, siblings of an AS or HFA youngster may experience the following: trying to make up for the deficits of their sibling frustration over not being able to engage – or relate to – their sibling embarrassment around friends concern regarding their parents’ anxiety concern ove
