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Being shot down for refereing son as my Auistic son!

Justme

Do any of you find it wrong?

 

To me I am not embarrased nor am i ashamed of my Son being Autistic I am very Proud of him and who he is yet this other person took it to be offencive! I don't see it like that at all! 

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  • Hi,

    Well it's tricky...while i too am very proud of my son, i don't ever introduce my child as 'my autisic son' or 'my son who's autistic'. i only ever tell people who actually need to know. the reason being is that i do not want him to be known as the autistic boy, as he is so much more. unfortunately we live in a world which still doesn't know how to react to people who are 'different', and so i like to make sure he isn't treated differently to his peers unless he needs to be.

    i agree that some people (especially family who don't accept a diagnosis of ASD) find it almost offensive, but it would seem that maybe there is more to this situation that caused such a negative reaction.

    one word of advice...while it's ok to inform people of your son's ASD, it should be used as an explanation, never an excuse.

     

    take care

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  • Hi,

    Well it's tricky...while i too am very proud of my son, i don't ever introduce my child as 'my autisic son' or 'my son who's autistic'. i only ever tell people who actually need to know. the reason being is that i do not want him to be known as the autistic boy, as he is so much more. unfortunately we live in a world which still doesn't know how to react to people who are 'different', and so i like to make sure he isn't treated differently to his peers unless he needs to be.

    i agree that some people (especially family who don't accept a diagnosis of ASD) find it almost offensive, but it would seem that maybe there is more to this situation that caused such a negative reaction.

    one word of advice...while it's ok to inform people of your son's ASD, it should be used as an explanation, never an excuse.

     

    take care

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