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My autistic (Asberger’s) child is the Greatest Thing Ever. There’s nothing “wrong” with him. He’s different. And kids, the Different People are what propel society forward.

Have you ever heard about Newton? Severely autistic, and still considered the greatest mind EVER. Back then, they didn’t have the labels we do but if you read about the personality traits of some of the greatest minds, most had some form of Autism.

We have calendars because of autistic types. They are the people who notice things like where the moon and stars have moved. Or how the seasons change in a timely manner. Or come up with things like calculus. The list goes on and on. We ‘normal’ types? Most of us follow belief systems with no basis in logic. Who the h*ll are we to judge?

Autistics are the people who come up with the math/engineering to make all the wonderful crap that we have, so why try to quash it? My autistic uncle was an engineer with the space program. He said that most of the people he worked with were some type of social misfit. But that’s what makes them them — and that’s a Good Thing.

My son is 10 and makes movies that would blow your mind. He storyboards, writes scripts, builds sets… I have other parents (with ‘normal’ kids) jealous of how creative mine is. He doesn’t need to be entertained. He’s always got a goal. He knows who he is and isn’t pressured by his peers unless he truly chooses to be. I couldn’t do that at his age, but his self-awareness is not to be compromised. I’ve no doubt my son’s ability to succeed, and I’m sick of this mentality that he’s somehow diseased.

In my opinion, we need more brilliantly “crazy” people, and a few less stupidly “sane”. The so-called sane ones have made Jon & Kate and Heidi & Spencer celebs. So who’s more mentally impaired? I realize that some parents have more to take on than I do (my son is very high-function), and maybe my rant doesn’t apply to them, so if I offended anyone, I’m sorry. Not my intent.

I just want our children to be appreciated and the stigmas destroyed.

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Denise is right on this one. Charlie’s feeding into a fear campaign.

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I really hate the general thoughts spread that autism makes your kid broken. It can be dealt with, it can be worked through. Right now it won’t be cured, but a person can live a successful life with it. My father-in-law is most certainly autistic — but he was never diagnosed with it as a child because they didn’t know about it. He’s an absolutely brilliant engineer, has been married for 40 years, has four children, and a decent amount of money. Sure, his idea of fun might be making random spreadsheets and he might be terribly awkward and confused in social situations, but he works through it. He keeps on going.

It feels to me that a lot of the autism-hype comes from the idea that you end up with a kid that’s not normal. They’re more work for their parents, they’re not what their parents imagined they’d be. Not that everyone feels this way, but that’s the mainstream vibe I get.

The connections between autism and vaccines are coincidences. Correlation does not equal causation. The same time babies get their vaccinations is when autism starts to show up. That’s why I think a delayed vaccination plan is a good compromise; your children aren’t getting drugs pumped into them at a young age that might hinder your development, but then they aren’t heading off to school with no immunity.

I know everyone hates Denise, but I’ve always been meh on her. She’s childish, but Charlie’s always been the one that’s made me roll my eyes.

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I dont think the vaccine caused it, I think he inherited it from his father. I think it was just coinidental timing that he started acting out and showing signs of Autism. But when I read about the research into it and realized that was right about when I started having trouble with him, it was a very scary moment.

And you are most def right about some therapies making them worse. I have social services on me, my reward for hospitalizing him when he was a danger to himself. They tried to force me to put him in this therapy and that therapy, when he’ll tell you flat out, he doesn’t want to see a doctor, doesn’t want to be treated like he’s different. He says it makes him feel stupid and singled out, and I can def see why. When he’s not in therapy and he’s just “one of the kids,” he raises to the challenge. But there’s so many idiots out there that you can’t tell em nothin.

And I dont buy that vitamins “cure” either. Only thing vitamins did to my son was make him have a growth spurt. I did cut out red & yellow #5 tho, and have found that a glass of milk first thing in the morning eases the autistic symptoms drastically, usually for the whole day.

Unfortuneately, its almost like the 2 sides to his brain can’t fire at once. Some days he’s most def autistic, some days he’s smart as a whip. We never see days where his intelligence shines through, he just has a little more trouble focusing. Its one or the other day by day.

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