*blinks*

[conuly]

Article about parents of aspie kids being accused of abuse

Choice quotes:

She and her husband Michael had removed their sons Ben, 15, and Sam, 10, from their schools after they fell prey to severe bullying.

This, we all know, is common with autistic/aspie kids. Common with far too many kids, really. It's the bullies who should be taken out of the schools, but you know nobody would go for that...

"He said: 'Right you are on the at risk register because your parents are abusing you emotionally and physically'," said Ben.

So, they just TELL a kid this? They don't even say "we think that" or "we have reason to believe that" first? So even if the parents are vindicated, this idea is stuck on them!

"The next words out of his mouth were: 'it concerns me you are not into sport and fashion like normal children of your age'."

*cracks up*

Because the kid is, I believe, normal for most autistics, he must be abused? God, base ignorance!

Besides, if he HAD been interested in sports and fashions, people would get upset at that, say he wasn't concentrating on important issues. And he wouldn't be. This is the first I've ever heard that people want children to be shallow.

*grumbles loudly*

Comments

[rachelkachel]

*strangles*

I was never into "sport and fashion" and I'm not even autistic. (Well, possibly slightly. But I'm pretty sure I'm well within the "normal" range.) Have my parents been abusing me? Why wasn't I told?!?

[ruthanolis.livejournal.com]

That's where the kicker is: What actually characterises a normal child? I'd like to know where I went wrong growing up in what I perversely thought was a normal household ...
And why the hell aren't adults given the same super strict guidelines to normality? Or are people not allowed to be different until they reach eighteen?

[conuly]

What actually characterises a normal child?

If we like you, and your parents, you're normal.

And why the hell aren't adults given the same super strict guidelines to normality? Or are people not allowed to be different until they reach eighteen?

1. Because they're ADULTS!
2. They're not allowed to be different then, either, but there's not much that can be done about it.

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

Ageism is real... ><;