Published on 12, July, 2020
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.
Hi.. there is absolutely no way your kids were removed because you have a ASD diagnosis.
Children are removed from autistic parents. Up until recently there has been limited research into autistic parents, this has resulted in autistic parents being unfairly treated and their parenting ill-judged by professionals not to mention historical damaging research which focused on so called autism deficits. It has been highlighted in research by Blakemore 2015, United Kingdom Human Rights Committee report which highlights human rights violations against autistic parents within child protection and the family Courts. Thankfully more research is coming out about the strengths autistic parents have to offer their children.
And if her ASD was misdiagnosed as schizophrenia or some other disorder? Because that is a thing that’s happened before.