Veteran basketball player spoke at an event on the occasion of World Autism Day
At an event on the occasion of World Autism Day the Dimitris Papanikolaou. The former basketball player confessed the story of his daughter, Aria, at the age of about 3 and a half years diagnosed in autism spectrum And he revealed the psychological consequences he had for the whole family. The excerpt was viewed on Thursday morning (3/4) by “Happy Day”.
“We were shouted at the kindergarten and told us that Aria has some difference with the other children in the movements, in the Word. What is it? We went and got a diagnosis: Autism. My wife paralyzed and lost her driving capacity. I was taking her to the psychiatrist to recover and waited for her to finish the sessions, “Dimitris Papanikolaou described.
“When Aria entered adolescence, he ate a lot of bowling at school. Her friends were secretly out and not calling her, they didn’t invite her to a party and fooled her to Tiktok with the word “autistic”. There were times when he told us that he should not have been born, It was very difficult for us, we were constantly fighting, “the former athlete continued.
“Inside the quarantine we were shouted from the school that was going and told us that in changing high school to high school he will not continue to school. “He won’t get a degree in that school and he will have to leave,” we were told, “Dimitris Papanikolaou then revealed.
“Aria was happier when she was at home and had no others to fool her. We made the decision to tell her and thanked us, she felt she was in a cage and she was released. “ Dimitris Papanikolaou ended in his history.
