>>22852951>Can someone explain to me how autism is a gift?It's not. That shit is cope, though I can't hold it against them to try to be positive. I used to work with people who had autism. Not the cutesy 'Rain Man' kind, the fucked up kind. And I worked with them because they were wards of the state. In healthcare, different kinds of work means you have different levels of access to patient histories and medical records. Poring over them, there was a frequent common denominator: As children they were manageable in some sense and then puberty hit and they became uncontrollable and prone to caricatures of violent and/or sexualized behavior- deeply damaged organisms marionetting normal human behavior in a profoundly broken way.
Anyway, one of the most troublingly-accurate things I ever saw on how bad it is to be a parent of an autistic child was a ~10 minute mini-documentary about a single mother with an autistic daughter. Think ex-roastie winds up getting her shit somewhat in order, lands a good job finally and has a career, gets pregnant in her late 30's when the only eggs left are the fucked up ones and shits out a nightmare baby. One of my co-workers IRL basically had the same thing happen. In the documentary what surprised me was the mom was super honest. "I just want to die. I just thinking about dying. I'm so exhausted, I just want all this to end. I love my daughter so much but she's destroying me. I'd die for her but I just want it to come sooner rather than later."
It's so bad you guys. The reality of it. You'll never see it in the news, either. And after years and years of working with individuals so profoundly tarded-up, you'll almost never see footage of what that reality is like. I have found two clips, one of which is attached. Think about what the mother is having to deal with in this clip.
And it get so much fucking worse. In every town, including yours, mainly in what look like normal residential houses until you look closely.
