The issue for autism parents should not be what they did and did not try. That should not be a divisive factor in our community. Why judge? Why not assume that each parent is doing the best they can, with the small margin of exceptions? How can someone judge from the outside what the inside of my family — or my kid — is like? In fact, how dare they? <\/p>\n
Some of the comments in my last post just blow my mind. I can’t imagine equating advocacy in the State House with giving up on my kid. It just doesn’t make sense. I also can’t imagine making the broad statement that “most parents” don’t have the time to advocate like that, to give up time to sit in some representative’s antechamber. How the hell does anyone know what other parents do and don’t do with their time? I took my lunch hour to do that. Sometimes I make a trip into Boston specifically to meet with my state rep about Nat and others. If he’s in school, why does that mean that I’ve chosen the wrong way to spend my time?<\/p>\n
I just think we all need to tend our own gardens a bit, and work more towards understanding how to solve problems, rather than think that we have all the green grass on our side of the fence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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