A Post to Guardian Dad For Autistic Kid

Content warning- disablism.Yesterday the Guardian published a letter from a man to his autistic son entitled, A letter to … my son, who has autism, for whom I’ll always do my best. Read this at your peril as it is truly vile.With just a few deviations, this letter follows the tried and tested Assembly Manual for Autism Articles TM  which I created in 2008.Guardian Dad starts off describing Autistic Kid's arrival into the world, how he felt "total, unconditional love" and envisaged watching Autistic Kid "grow up, go to university, find love, then maybe settle down and have his own family." The thought that Autistic Kid might not want to follow such a path doesn't seem to have occurred to him.He then weirdly complains about his own parents choice to leave Autistic Kid "half of everything" in their wills. Is this because Guardian Dad wanted it all for himself?Then, following stage 4 of the autism article template, "the parents realise the child is somehow different, something is not quite right" Guardian Dad describes how Autistic Kid "didn't play very well [...] flitting from toy to toy, with no concern for the people around you and ignoring any child who engaged with you."I would speculate that Autistic Kid was playing differently not badly and it's impossible to say he lacked concern for other people. Autistic Kid's other kiddie crime was to "only talk to adults when [he] wanted them to do something" so we know he communicated via speech. Any...
Source: The Voyage - Category: Child Development Tags: autism in the media disablism Source Type: blogs