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craftyzits, thanks for weighing in. I always value your perspective on issues like this.
I've always felt that parents need to accept that their kids with autism won't necessarily be able to do things "on time" compared to their age peers, and that adapting things/changing expectations isn't always in the kid's best interest. Autistic kids have a whole range of needs, but there are going to be things that just aren't suited for them, period.
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craftyzits
My mother did not take me out Trick Or Treating until I could follow the social rules of saying "Trick or Treat" and "Thank you" for candy. Of course, I was doing trick or treating back in the 70s before the age of teal pumpkins and other shit. I was not allowed out to do anything until I was well able to follow the social rules. Jesus, why aren't more parents like my mom and not whining ninnies like this cunt?
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Cambion
And no, I will not ask how I can help you or your awtard. You chose to breed, so it's your job to figure that shit out, not mine. Unless you see a blue pumpkin or a puzzle ribbon anywhere near me, I don't give a fraction of a fuck about you or your kid.
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And no, I will not ask how I can help you or your awtard. You chose to breed, so it's your job to figure that shit out, not mine. Unless you see a blue pumpkin or a puzzle ribbon anywhere near me, I don't give a fraction of a fuck about you or your kid.
I read recently that blue means allergic and teal means autism. I'm sure it will be super easy to distinguish those colors in the dark.
Having allergies myself, I think the blue pumpkin is bullshit as well. I mean, allergic to what? How is some random person supposed to know if it's nuts or dairy or something else? In the article about the blue pumpkin someone in the comments wrote about the only way they'd seen it work. A woman in their neighborhood went around to the nearest homes in advance and gave them a baggie she'd packed of stuff her kid could have, and asked them to give that instead of the usual candy to her kid. That's the only way I think it could work, but most breeders won't take it upon themselves to organize like that.
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craftyzits, thanks for weighing in. I always value your perspective on issues like this.
I've always felt that parents need to accept that their kids with autism won't necessarily be able to do things "on time" compared to their age peers, and that adapting things/changing expectations isn't always in the kid's best interest. Autistic kids have a whole range of needs, but there are going to be things that just aren't suited for them, period.
The above applies to all disabled children. Children allergic to everything edible should not be forced on the school lunch program complicating it needlessly either. This inclusiveness at all costs is damaging ALL children, not just the abled or the disabled.
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I’ve been noticing a lot of talk lately about how autism is a “gift.” How these kids and their strangely wired brains are so much better because they notice things other people might not. Often because they fixate on one specific thing and ignore everything else, so of course they notice some weird little detail about that thing that nobody else cares about. So which is it? Is autism a superpower, or is it a liability that everyone else around you is required to help you with?
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Autistic people do have some things going for them, such as pattern recognition, being able to notice small details, they can have incredible intelligence in regard to very specific things like computers or numbers. However, only the higher-functioning ones are able to make good use of those skills. Being able to predict a pattern isn't going to help the awtard if they're having a meltdown for seven hours because someone they saw was wearing a green shirt and they HATE the color green so much that seeing it initiates a complete system shutdown.
Autism can be a gift and a curse. I have autistic friends who are driven nuts by the fact they must adhere to routines or will fixate on things because they "have to." I imagine autistic tendencies could come in handy from time to time, but I'd wager most people who have it probably wouldn't want it if they had the choice to get rid of it.
Just thinking of all the things that could go wrong hauling an awtard out for Halloween is enough to give me a headache. Junior doesn't want to go because someone's dog looked at him funny, or because another kid was dressed as a Minion and Minions scare him (and the mother will blame the other kid for not magically knowing a Minion costume will set her dumpling off), or because he doesn't like how his left shoe feels, or because he couldn't wear his red striped socks that he MUST wear every Thursday because they were in the laundry, or he doesn't like how the wrapper on his Snickers bar looks and wants another one but can't tell anyone what's "wrong" with it, or his costume is giving him sensory overload due to his texture issues, or he melts down in a stranger's driveway because one of the eyes on the jack-o-lantern lollipop he got is uneven, or 500 million other stupid things. I don't see how it could possibly be any fun for the kid, the parent, or anyone else to drag an autistic kid out to go trick-or-treating.
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craftyzits, thanks for weighing in. I always value your perspective on issues like this.
I've always felt that parents need to accept that their kids with autism won't necessarily be able to do things "on time" compared to their age peers, and that adapting things/changing expectations isn't always in the kid's best interest. Autistic kids have a whole range of needs, but there are going to be things that just aren't suited for them, period.
The above applies to all disabled children. Children allergic to everything edible should not be forced on the school lunch program complicating it needlessly either. This inclusiveness at all costs is damaging ALL children, not just the abled or the disabled.
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