| This is it, i've had enough.
I know all about Autism,what it is, how it effects and all of that. It's a shame that things like this exists and I really feel for the parents of kids who have it. I can't imagine how hard it is to deal with, especially with so many people in the world who don't know anything about the condition. Okay, i sympathize. I also know that up until recently kids with autism were treated appallingly, some places they still are. I know a women who is constantly trying to improve the quality of help for autistic children and their parents (she has at least 2 kids of her with autism) and i respect her greatly for it.
But please, enough is enough. Yes you're life is hard, yes people glare at you in supermarkets like you're the worst parent ever when your child starts to "act up" or whatever you want to say, yes yes yes yes i KNOW. I am so sick of seeing posts about autism on the xanga front page, they all say the exact same thing. It's either "people don't understand" or "look how ignorant this person was" or "let's blame this vaccine/medicine/whatever". These people have a chance to really HELP but yet all they can do is tell us about the stupid people in line at the grocery or how hard their personal experience is. I have never once seen a post by someone giving advice to other parents or information about organizations or anything useful like that. If they exist, then huzzah. Personally though I have never seen them and xanga should be ashamed of its self for not pasting those on the front page 50000 times. It's mostly all self-righteous braying, which leads me into...
Reading these posts about autism, I can't help but notice that some of these people have some kind of complex about it. I've seen many posts where the authors act all self-important or self-righteous about having a child with autism. Like they are better than the rest of us because of what they have to deal with, and no they are not. They may be more patient than the rest of us, but that comes with having a child in general or at least it should. My favorites are the stories where they freak out at unsuspecting citizens like they are the devil incarnate.
It's gotten out of hand. What brought this rant up is the latest post about some starbucks cashier commenting on how it seems that autistic kids are in their own world and the parent freaking out, she then relayed a story about being asked to donate to a camp for kids with debilitating diseases. She asked if autism was one of them, it was not. heart disease, asthma and cancer were however. Apparently, this wasn't acceptable?!
Listen, autism isn't in the same categpry as cancer or heart disease. Completley different types of problems, apples and oranges here folks. That is all there is to it. There is no scale here, no "well this is worse than that". No, they are different and everyone suffering from or dealing with these things deserve help. Even if one was worse than the other, does that mean both parties don't deserve help? Of course not!
All in all, say something useful or say nothing at all. Your child having any condition, anything at all, isn't a way for you to gain points or look better than the rest of us mere mortals. So many people talk about wanting acceptance and understanding, well maybe if so many of you stopped acting so "holier than thou" you would get it.
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