Social services removing children from parents with ASD

Hi, 

I am an autistic adult who is a parent. Since having my daughter I went through a terrible time with social services who set me up to fail and removed my daughter from me because I have a diagnosis of autism. It took me two years to fight for my daughter back and through this time social services and Cafcass used the so called deficits of my autism to justify the removal and to stop the return of my daughter. Thankfully the judge saw through this and returned my daughter concluding in her judgment that I parent my daughter to a high standard. 

I want to know how many my adults will autism who are parents have been through a similar situation. How many parents with ASD and other disabilities and or impairments are being targeted by social services and having their children removed? If you have experienced this please tell your story because the current system is outrageously discriminative against parents who have a disability and or impairment and I would like to raise awareness of the current failures within the current child protection system which is targeting parents with disabilities and or impairments so that change can happen. 

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  • That is a horrible thing to go through for you all. I hope things are much better for you now.

    I haven't had my girl taken away from me before but its been threatened a few times because of my mental state because of depression and because I let my physical health slip sometimes, both I'm trying to work on.

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  • That is a horrible thing to go through for you all. I hope things are much better for you now.

    I haven't had my girl taken away from me before but its been threatened a few times because of my mental state because of depression and because I let my physical health slip sometimes, both I'm trying to work on.

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