WTF?

[conuly]

I can honestly state that I've never felt the temptation to compare autism to cancer. In fact, I've never felt the temptation to compare anything to cancer except, perhaps, cancer. Do I need to run through my list of why Autism Is Not Comprable To Cancer again? Because I will if I have to.

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[codeman38.livejournal.com]

Austistic. Children. Can. Communicate! They may communicate in ways in which us parents are forced to give off of our lazy butts and try to understand, but I've never seen an autistic child who doesn't try to communicate on *some* level, in *some* manner! What's the big deal about those stupid "I love you" words?

AMEN. Why do people not get that? Communication is not necessarily verbal... nor oral, for that matter. (And I make the distinction because some parents don't even seem to be content that a kid can TYPE!)

And I don't get the whole deal about the kids saying "I love you" either... if I *were* to insist that a child communicate verbally, that's about the LAST thing I'd be worried about him saying. -_-

[anotheralice.livejournal.com]

if I *were* to insist that a child communicate verbally, that's about the LAST thing I'd be worried about him saying. -_-

Seriously. I'm *much* more concerned that my daughter can communicate effectively when/where/why she's hurt/suffering/unhappy so that I can *help* her rather than worrying about her giving me some weird ego-boost.

[wakasplat.livejournal.com]

"AMEN. Why do people not get that? Communication is not necessarily verbal... nor oral, for that matter. (And I make the distinction because some parents don't even seem to be content that a kid can TYPE!)"

What I've seen is often an interesting distinction made:

1. If their own kid can type, but not speak, then it shows the "tragedy of autism".

2. If I can type, but not speak, then I'm lucky and in no way comparable to people who suffer the "tragedy of autism".

<boggle>

[codeman38.livejournal.com]

O_o Neurotypical logic baffles me sometimes.

[ex-chaos-by-699.livejournal.com]

In the example she's pointing out, that's not logic of any sort, it's just plain stupidity.

What it really is plain old self-centeredness. These are the complaints of people who probably had a child for all the wrong reasons to begin with (having a kid so that you have someone to love you counts as a wrong reason, in my book), then got all disappointed when they didn't get the adorable, cheerful moppet they were expecting.

I can understand someone having issues at first with having an autistic kid. If you're NT, it would make communicating with your child that much more than a challenge. But it isn't the total tragedy these people are making it out to be either.

Grr.