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Junaid Hussain

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207 total appearances

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Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

As he's getting older, not intentionally, but as he's getting older, the marriage becomes slightly more difficult to manage, especially for the mother. Because of him becoming physically stronger, he's able to push stronger, punch, and so on. So it can hurt unwittingly, it hurts a bit more. So they can be difficult to manage, but they last about 20 to 30 minutes at times.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

But severe, no broken plates, no bruises, but the whole household comes to a stop. The children have to go to another part of the house. He has to have his own family to be supported because he needs a release before he goes back into a more neutral, emotional stance.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

But severe, no broken plates, no bruises, but the whole household comes to a stop. The children have to go to another part of the house. He has to have his own family to be supported because he needs a release before he goes back into a more neutral, emotional stance.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

But severe, no broken plates, no bruises, but the whole household comes to a stop. The children have to go to another part of the house. He has to have his own family to be supported because he needs a release before he goes back into a more neutral, emotional stance.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

And remember that he was diagnosed before I was. So I was there as a autistic ADHD adult in the same household. And he's having a meltdown that we're not sure why he's having this. Is he being disruptive? What's the cause for it? And so on. So the diagnosis was a watershed moment. We understand him. Even then, we wouldn't understand what was his behaviors.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

And remember that he was diagnosed before I was. So I was there as a autistic ADHD adult in the same household. And he's having a meltdown that we're not sure why he's having this. Is he being disruptive? What's the cause for it? And so on. So the diagnosis was a watershed moment. We understand him. Even then, we wouldn't understand what was his behaviors.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

And remember that he was diagnosed before I was. So I was there as a autistic ADHD adult in the same household. And he's having a meltdown that we're not sure why he's having this. Is he being disruptive? What's the cause for it? And so on. So the diagnosis was a watershed moment. We understand him. Even then, we wouldn't understand what was his behaviors.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

For us, as a family, keeping us together as a family, the biggest, most helpful support first came from the speech and language and occupational therapists. Because speech and language in particular, it's not just about talking, but it's about understanding him and understanding his behaviors and understanding how he expresses himself. So when we understood

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

For us, as a family, keeping us together as a family, the biggest, most helpful support first came from the speech and language and occupational therapists. Because speech and language in particular, it's not just about talking, but it's about understanding him and understanding his behaviors and understanding how he expresses himself. So when we understood

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

For us, as a family, keeping us together as a family, the biggest, most helpful support first came from the speech and language and occupational therapists. Because speech and language in particular, it's not just about talking, but it's about understanding him and understanding his behaviors and understanding how he expresses himself. So when we understood

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

the physical and verbal cues that were coming from him. And we understood this was a normal part of it. We were able to understand that he's not being disruptive. He's not being a bad child. This is just him and he cannot manage this. And then your mind as a parent naturally switches to a natural parental mercy towards the child, from being an idolatry parent.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

the physical and verbal cues that were coming from him. And we understood this was a normal part of it. We were able to understand that he's not being disruptive. He's not being a bad child. This is just him and he cannot manage this. And then your mind as a parent naturally switches to a natural parental mercy towards the child, from being an idolatry parent.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

the physical and verbal cues that were coming from him. And we understood this was a normal part of it. We were able to understand that he's not being disruptive. He's not being a bad child. This is just him and he cannot manage this. And then your mind as a parent naturally switches to a natural parental mercy towards the child, from being an idolatry parent.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

My God, why is this child being so disruptive to actually my child, this is who he is and he can't help this. And we need to help him in this because he has so many wonderful, beautiful attributes otherwise. And this is just one part of him. that we need to help in order for him to see the beautiful sides of him that are still there as well.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

My God, why is this child being so disruptive to actually my child, this is who he is and he can't help this. And we need to help him in this because he has so many wonderful, beautiful attributes otherwise. And this is just one part of him. that we need to help in order for him to see the beautiful sides of him that are still there as well.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

My God, why is this child being so disruptive to actually my child, this is who he is and he can't help this. And we need to help him in this because he has so many wonderful, beautiful attributes otherwise. And this is just one part of him. that we need to help in order for him to see the beautiful sides of him that are still there as well.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

Absolutely. Once he had the maturity, it's about the last year or two, to understand that, yeah, he invented himself. He's able to sign posts that he's about to have a meltdown or he's getting into a more emotional state.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

Absolutely. Once he had the maturity, it's about the last year or two, to understand that, yeah, he invented himself. He's able to sign posts that he's about to have a meltdown or he's getting into a more emotional state.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

Absolutely. Once he had the maturity, it's about the last year or two, to understand that, yeah, he invented himself. He's able to sign posts that he's about to have a meltdown or he's getting into a more emotional state.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

What I would say, though, is that, and I'm sort of repeating this, but I know I mentioned it earlier, but I think with ourselves in particular, the speech and language therapists were very, very good in providing him with the information in an accessible manner for him And also providing us as parents with that.