Parent of a child with autism here.
I would not say that you are the bad guy, at the same time, you are from the class of people who are in their own shells. Nothing wrong with it but the society has reached to the point that 1 in 48 boys are on the autism spectrum (gone are the days of 1 in 68), and this has become an emergency but rarely there is any government that is taking any steps to find out the causes and addresses it. I do not want to go further in it but I am saying here that this is going to get worse and it won't be that long when EVERY family will have a person with autism. At the end, everyone will be affected one way or the other.
Now when it comes to the farts, its not that kid's fault, almost every kid with autism has an issue with the GI system and almost every mainstream GI will disregard it as a part of autism. Nobody can do anything about it. Those parents who are not from the field of medicine will agree to the physician and since they don't know anything better, they will follow the (ill)directions offered by the GI. Then you have a kid like you mention.
I can go on and on but hardly anyone here will probably understand or will care about reading to 'understand' the topic. When autism is not in your family, almost everyone is like, its not my problem, deal with it because YOU have a kid with autism. I have had my share of stares and rude comments.
If you again meet that parent, ask him to hit up to tacanow.org They sell 'Journey Guides' that have a lot of information that can help the parent to improve the quality of life of that kid. I don't know if you have TACA chapters in Canada, but if this father is interested, you can ask him to contact me, I will help him. If he is interested, I will PM my email ID to you.
Just one request at the end those who read till here. We, the parents of kids on the spectrum, are not doing anything intentionally. We have thrown our careers out the window, spent all our fortune to help the kids to improve their quality of life but if our kid is doing something offensive, its not because we have been lazy but because the kids' health issues are so complex that the mainstream medicine has given up on these kids. If you can not help, the minimum request is, don't demonize the parents. They are doing the best they can. Today is our turn, god forbid tomorrow is yours.
I would not say that you are the bad guy, at the same time, you are from the class of people who are in their own shells. Nothing wrong with it but the society has reached to the point that 1 in 48 boys are on the autism spectrum (gone are the days of 1 in 68), and this has become an emergency but rarely there is any government that is taking any steps to find out the causes and addresses it. I do not want to go further in it but I am saying here that this is going to get worse and it won't be that long when EVERY family will have a person with autism. At the end, everyone will be affected one way or the other.
Now when it comes to the farts, its not that kid's fault, almost every kid with autism has an issue with the GI system and almost every mainstream GI will disregard it as a part of autism. Nobody can do anything about it. Those parents who are not from the field of medicine will agree to the physician and since they don't know anything better, they will follow the (ill)directions offered by the GI. Then you have a kid like you mention.
I can go on and on but hardly anyone here will probably understand or will care about reading to 'understand' the topic. When autism is not in your family, almost everyone is like, its not my problem, deal with it because YOU have a kid with autism. I have had my share of stares and rude comments.
If you again meet that parent, ask him to hit up to tacanow.org They sell 'Journey Guides' that have a lot of information that can help the parent to improve the quality of life of that kid. I don't know if you have TACA chapters in Canada, but if this father is interested, you can ask him to contact me, I will help him. If he is interested, I will PM my email ID to you.
Just one request at the end those who read till here. We, the parents of kids on the spectrum, are not doing anything intentionally. We have thrown our careers out the window, spent all our fortune to help the kids to improve their quality of life but if our kid is doing something offensive, its not because we have been lazy but because the kids' health issues are so complex that the mainstream medicine has given up on these kids. If you can not help, the minimum request is, don't demonize the parents. They are doing the best they can. Today is our turn, god forbid tomorrow is yours.
