It was my first child and I didn’t know what I was doing wrong. It was horrible. By his age 10 I learned to leave him home for everything. He couldn’t handle family parties or a trip to the store. He is still so smart, he can compensate much better now, and he is a great person.
I saw an Asian mom in a very Asian neighborhood with a boy having an obvious autistic meltdown in front of a mall she wished to enter. Poor thing, she was terribly embarrassed and was still trying to get him to go in. I was driving or I would have tried to help, but it could have been she didn’t speak English and I would have only mortified her more. (Help would have meant give it up, go home, or distract him with a bit of favorite food, etc)
Couldn’t agree with you more. I have an autistic nephew and every time some idiot says they are just spoiled or parents are just milking the system for some more money or extra attention it makes me angry. These people obviously have never had to deal w/autism. Much less 24/7/365. I wish all those people would spend just a day with one autistic kid. They would at least stop posting such nonsense.
I play senior softball with a guy who has an autistic son whose age is approx. 46 years old but looks like he's in his early 20's. Once in a while he brings him out to the park and while it's impossible to communicate with him he acts like a 14 year old and is excited about everything.......