Hello, I am the father of a four year old daughter with autism who is the light of my life. I am looking for some advice from another parent who has maybe dealt with a similar situation. To cut a long and ugly story short, three members of my extended family sent texts to me with the most awful joke i have heard about people with learning difficulties and i cant forgive them or get past it. I text them back asking if they forgot i had an autistic daughter and did they think i would find it funny. The apologies they made were not accepted as they made it worse, eg in one text they said they were sorry but its the first thing that made them smile for weeks, etc etc i could go on all day with my thoughts on people like this but i wont. I have since seen all of them at family functions and i cannot bring myself to even look at them or speak to them all i can do is try to bury my anger deep down, this of course makes things very tense and awkward. Im tempted to abstain from being anywhere they are as i dont want my daughter around anyone who thinks learning difficulties are funny but then my children would lose out on seeing other decent family members, its difficult to avoid them at this time of year and i dont know what to do. I thank you in advance for any help or advice you can offer me because i find this horrible situation deeply distressing. Thank god my little angel is unaware of some of the disgraceful people she is related to.
