I hear there are two types of mothers, warrior mothers who have recovered their children from autism and victim mothers who enjoy the attention their children's autism brings them and do nothing to change the fact that their child/ren have autism. This angers the hell out of me! I also see all these supposed risk factors for having a child with autism and it sounds so ridiculous. Autism does not discriminate, it doesn't matter whether you are sick, healthy, fat, thin, rich, poor, white, black, old, young, vaccinate, do not vaccinate, anyone at anytime can have a child with autism. There is NO definitive proof, no cause either genetic or organic that determines who, when and where a child with autism will be born. I see all these statistical risks and if you have this, or if you do this you are going to have a child with autism, where is the PROOF? No one can tell us because they have NO idea why autism occurs, it just does. Some kids with autism are extremely severe and some are nearly undetectable. I don't think that a mother of a nearly typically developing child to begin with should have anything to say to the mother of a child that sits, stares, hand flaps, and wants nothing to do with her that she is playing the "victim"! I get a bit riled up about this but it hits so close to home and I refuse for anyone to even insinuate that I LIKE my daughters having this disorder! I LOVE them for who they are, I want them to be the best them they can be but I do not take joy in the fact that my children have autism, but as a matter of fact I wouldn't change a thing even if it was offered to me on a silver platter. Autism is who they are but it does not define them.
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