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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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  • Thanks for the clarification.

    I'm thinking that this person didn't know that you have an autistic son. In which case they might have thought that you changed the caption because of what your son was doing rather than because of what he is.

    If that were the case then this would be a good example of why some people say that it is better to introduce our children as;

    'This is my son who has autism.' rather than, 'This is my autistic son.'

    The difference is subtle and in an ideal world the difference would not exist, unfortunately we live in the real world and that can be very cruel.

     

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  • Thanks for the clarification.

    I'm thinking that this person didn't know that you have an autistic son. In which case they might have thought that you changed the caption because of what your son was doing rather than because of what he is.

    If that were the case then this would be a good example of why some people say that it is better to introduce our children as;

    'This is my son who has autism.' rather than, 'This is my autistic son.'

    The difference is subtle and in an ideal world the difference would not exist, unfortunately we live in the real world and that can be very cruel.

     

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