I’m always hearing about “autism parents” talking about how hard it is to raise a ‘different’ child. I never here about autistic parents though. That seems like it would be much more difficult. Having a neurotypical child knowing that they’re never going to know the subtle [or possibly overwhelming] joys of things like special interests, stims, or perfect sensory experiences. Also having a feeling of relief knowing they won’t be overloaded, among other things, as easily but still not understanding how they don’t have those feelings. Or neurodivergent parents of neurodivergent children who don’t share the same experiences and having to work with something being a Good Feeling for the parent and a Bad Feeling for their child.
I just feel like this deserves a lot more attention than “Autism Moms”.
An addition: I think one of the best qualities my parents have is not distinguishing my neurotype from my personality.
They don’t segregate like some parents do, i.e., ‘this is an autistic thing and I’m going to try to correct it to help them’. I’m treated differently than my sisters not because I’m different neurologically, but because I’m a different person. I was raised according to my personality just like they were.
Too many parents tend to categorise. This is an autistic thing, but that is who he actually is. These meltdowns are her autism problems but bullying is a personal problem. This is because they’re different; that is because they’re them.
This is very damaging because neurodivergency is inseparable from one’s core personality. To them, they’re not “Autism Parents”. They’re just parents. Which is how things should be. They don’t care for autism first and their child second – they care for their child first and autism as a part of their child.
I wish more neurotypical parents of neurodivergent children were like this because it would result in children who are much better adjusted than the children of trademark autism moms.
I feel like this needs to go viral.
I’m gonna tag all he autism related blogs I know so this can spread
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Follow these great accounts and add some to have this go around ❤
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