{"id":106789,"date":"2025-10-30T22:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T22:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/106789\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T22:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T22:24:07","slug":"everything-i-am-going-to-do-it-is-around-aiden-paul-scholes-reveals-heart-wrenching-reason-he-gave-up-punditry-as-man-utd-legend-lifts-lid-on-relationship-with-special-needs-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/106789\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Everything I am going to do, it is around Aiden&#8217; &#8211; Paul Scholes reveals heart-wrenching reason he gave up punditry as Man Utd legend lifts lid on relationship with special needs son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scholes previously opened up with the challenges of having an autistic child on a BBC documentary in 2021, which was hosted by Paddy McGuinness, who has three autistic children himself. &#8220;For those first few years of being diagnosed you think he\u2019s just delayed, eventually he\u2019ll start talking,&#8221; Scholes told McGuinness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you get to 12, 13, 14\u2026 now he\u2019s 16 it\u2019s never going to happen. He\u2019s never going to be neurotypical, but he\u2019s great and you have to accept it. I\u2019ve never said this before. I\u2019m looking at him thinking he might have to go into care. I just don\u2019t know how you handle that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scholes revealed that the initial diagnosis affected his performances on the pitch, adding: &#8220;We got the diagnosis. We were playing Derby away. I was terrible, absolutely shocking. I didn\u2019t want to be there. Head was gone. I was worrying about autism, reading, trying to find out anything I could.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former United midfielder currently has a podcast &#8211; The Good, The Bad and The Football &#8211; alongside McGuinness and ex-teammate Nicky Butt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scholes previously opened up with the challenges of having an autistic child on a BBC documentary in 2021,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,3157,69890,105],"class_list":["post-106789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-manchester-united","tag-p-scholes","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}