Naquibullah
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My name is Naquibullah. I am 35 years old.
and . . . my two sons have autism.
and with autism. . .
those who has children who has autism,
the impact of this is huge on children,
regardless of how old the children are,
They behave like little ones,
express themselves as little ones
This creates a lot of work for parents.
Parents need a lot of hard work to cope with this.
NDIS is a government agency
that support the families
who have issues with autism.
and provides teachers to these families
so they could educate their children with autism.
So that whatever childish behaviours the children show
that needs work, could be treated.
the child could feel he/she is no longer little.
This is a huge support to parents.
If NDIS was not there, child would have been left alone
everything would have been left for parents to do on their own
and would have been very difficult.
If we were not in Australia,
I would have had no knowledge of autism.
We may have thought the child
may have some mental weakness,
some people call this child crazy
and that the child has a disability and finished it at that.
The child would not have received that much support
we currently get from NDIS agency.
If we have not had the facilities
available to us that we have in Australia,
and we were in Afghanistan,
it would have been difficult for me
to know how to treat my children.
since we did not know and would have felt
child's attention would be somewhere else
or maybe the child is crazy.
Would have thought of different names for
child's condition thinking the child may have this or that issue.
The child had to deal with all those issues,
But thanks to Allah (God) that we have the facilities here
and we have this opportunity in Australia
to register our children with this agency
so that they receive support with their
behaviour in the community as well as educational assistance.
The children who have autism in Australia are
looked at in a good way and receive extra attention
and that they are in need of support
and have an issue, this is a common matter.
People do not consider this a shame,
but deal with it as common concern.
Those children who have autism
are no different to other children,
this is the way they are created by Almighty Allah (God)
so' however they were created by Allah
we need to look at them the same way.
We have to expect from them to the level
of their ability and people expect them to preform
accordingly and treat them well.
People should not look at them negatively or
consider them any less and pay more attention to them.
My friend who lives in Australia
has a child who has a disability.
He called to ask what he should he?
I spoke with him and gave him the information I had.
Regarding autism, in Afghanistan people
do not have accurate information about it.
They as I said before, look
at the child with one mindset,
and that is, the child is disabled.
The problem with a disable child is,
when he become an adult
marriage becomes an issue since
people would not look at a disabled person with respect.
In my opinion if a family has an issue
or observes an issue in their child
like a disability or autism or something else,
then they can see their family doctor
or they get information from their children's school
on their studies to see how they are at school
and look out for any signs and
if any issues, they could talk to their family doctor
or could also take the child to children's hospital
in your locality, the hospital could do the diagnosis.
Whatever sign and weaknesses you see in your
children, share with your family doctor,
hospital or school and they can guide you.
If your child has autism,
do not feel hopeless.
do not panic, relax,
you can talk about this,
there is good support available
and you can take advantage of this assistance.
We came to Australia in 2014 from Kabul
Fortunately my children had the autism diagnosis
Unfortunately we did not know about this at the beginning
and after two years we got this information
that our children have this issue
Fortunately we are taking advantage of the facilities
and my children are improving day by day.