Rare and touching confidences. Guest of a new issue of the show As an aside, broadcast this Wednesday, June 5 on Canal +, Francis Perrin spoke about the autism of his son Louis, now 22 years old. “You made the choice with your wife of a non-drug behavioral treatment, which was ultimately quite daring, quite courageous, and you realized that it worked.“, recalled Nathalie Levy. “ABA, applied behavior analysis, is a treatment that has had great effects in America and other countries around the world, but it was still very little accepted in France.“, explained the 76-year-old actor. After the diagnosis of their child, his wife Gersende is therefore “went over there to see how things were going.”
This treatment allowed Francis Perrin’s son to become “autonomous” : “Louis learned to eat, to walk, to drink, to sleep, to be what he is now, that is to say verbally autonomous“, confided the actor in the Canal + show. “What did this ordeal teach you?“, asked Nathalie Levy of her guest. “Oh a lot… He brought me a lot Louis“, confided Francis Perrin, overwhelmed by emotion. “We wanted him to be happy. That’s what it is, it’s like that every day, it’s happiness and that’s important“, confided the actor from Mongeville, proud that his son is following in his footsteps today.
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Francis Perrin, the terrible words of a doctor about his autistic son: “Mourn your child”
Last April, Francis Perrin already spoke about his son’s autism, on the set of It’s up to you. After the broadcast of a video of the young man on the boards alongside his father, Gersende Dufromentel’s husband revealed the terrible words of a doctor about his child’s autism: “They told me face to face, one of the leaders at that time in autism that we had gone to see, he said to me: ‘Grieve the loss of your child, let it go.’ It’s something we don’t forget“, he said.
However, Francis Perrin and his wife decided not to listen to this doctor’s advice: “We said: ‘No, we’re not going to give up’. And we didn’t give up. Louis is completely independent now“, asserted the ex-companion of Anny Duperey, specifying that her son manages a lot without her help: “He is always at home, of course, he will always be autistic, he will have to be accompanied, but he is independent, he cooks, he lives like a teenager.”
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