Thanks. As you might have guessed, I too have a child on the autism spectrum. I am the same mother for all my children, but the “great parenting” that these harsh Freepers would probably approve of works only on the non-autistic kids.
G-d bless you. Prayer helps, indeed, and so does relating to your child as your child and not a diagnosis. Which I am sure you do.
Thank you. I think that you get it. I bet that there is not one FReeper who in any way intended to malign any autistic child or any child that has a problem which competent medical personnel can agree upon -- and neither did Savage.
I read lots of posts saying all the child needs is a good smacking or spanking or this or that.
I can tell them that physical punishment doesn't go very far with an Autistic child.
What is surprising is that in this local Hispanic public school 85% of which are EL’s (English Learners) all the kids know him and go out of their way to say hello.
It is sort of like a game with them as the kids try to be the first one to get a response.
There are about 15 girls in his 2nd grade class of 22 and they take turns walking him to recess, lunch and to the library.
As a California parent of an Autistic child I have found that Child Protective Service is not our friend and are to be avoided at all costs.
A parent always has to be on guard about any complaints about the child's teacher or aids.
I found out the hard way that government officials will falsify a report for statical purposes.
Two years ago I made a complaint to the principal about a kindergarten teacher's Aid who was excitedly yelling at a child in a wheel chair who had bumped another child and spilled juice on both of them.
That was a mistake because the Aid anonymously filed a complaint with California Child Protective Services and the Shiite hit the fan for me.
It did not matter to them that the complaint was false it was like a Dan Rather Fake but Accurate moment.
When the Child Protective Gestapo found out my wife was a doctor they even embellished the Aids report.
It took two attorneys and over $5,000 dollars worth of fees to finally get everything settled.
As my attorney said in the case of a child you are guilty until proved innocent beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Since moving out here into the desert we are doing much better with our son.
I would like to have back the many thousands of dollars we spent on professionals trying to show that he was not Autistic.
Any way I better quit and answer some of the curmudgeons who think Autism is a fake diagnosis to bilk Hairy Reid out of his gobermint check.