Originally Posted by master of none
turn it into a journey of self discovery.

Yes-- that is how we are trying to approach this. We are gradually making DS aware of his differences (I know, you didn't have the luxury of "gradual"). We frame this as "everyone has things that are easy and things that are hard for them; this is one of the things that's hard for you."

Hard doesn't mean you don't do it-- it means you rise to the challenge. We try to exemplify this for our kids.

I like what ABQmom offered above, too.

DeeDee