Someone wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets 2012-01-26 01:48 pm (UTC)

The real problem is parents of Autistic kids and Ass-pies using the diagnosis as a "get out of parenting free" card. Yeah, they now don't have to control their kid, everyone else just has to tolerate the little shit's bad behaviour because the brat is now special. If a kid gets a diagnosis of autism then it means parents have to work three or four times as hard teaching social norms, reinforcing social norms, looking at places and asking is it safe/fair (to the child and others) to take their kid there (and if it is a diagnosis of aspergers, it is a sign they need to go to a different clinician and get a real diagnosis instead of a fictional one). It is a life limiting diagnosis, not a responsibility abdicating one. Sadly very, very, very, very few parents actually want that responsibility. They are just there for the diagnosis so they can be relieved of the title of bad parent.

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