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. 

Parents
  • Yes. I’m autistic but got told I had personality disorder and had my son removed from my care in2018. Can’t get him back. Despite trying. It’s the pD more than autism diagnosis they use against me as well as  saying my sons autism is too complex for me to manage. 

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  • Yes. I’m autistic but got told I had personality disorder and had my son removed from my care in2018. Can’t get him back. Despite trying. It’s the pD more than autism diagnosis they use against me as well as  saying my sons autism is too complex for me to manage. 

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