| A lot of these parents want a one-step "cure" or "solution" to autism, which is completely impossible. They're easily gullable to things without going to common sence as they feel desperation -- after all the doctor said that the child would be "hopeless".
hmph -- Yeah, I'm hopeless all right. Now working for $1000+/week traveling all over the country and have had 3 girlfriends; my current girlfriend for over 16 months. :-D
I do think that the "tradegy" per se is the fact parents lose their mind over the mere fact that the child isn't going to be a chatterbox fitting in perfectly into a cookie-cutter society. Now their job is harder than they wanted it, and they panic. Instead of just taking a step back and thinking over things, they rush for a quick fix. If someone manages to get them over their "quick fix" phase then they look at things rationally. And rationally raising any child autistic or not is better than doing things irrationally. |
