The allegedly UNBREAKABLE blade of my window ice scraper snapped off under the strain of several days of heavy ice scraping in this December's cold and snowy Canadian winter weather. In fairness to the manufacturers and distributors of the "Unbreakable" ice scraper blade I have used it well past the 3 year limited warranty and it has seen lots of use in previous Canuck winters. People, including parents of severely autistic children, can also break particularly if they face other socio-economic and/or family and health challenges.
Not all parents break in the face of the challenges and fears that haunt many parents of severely autistic children but some do. All of us know that it is highly unlikely that anyone will provide our autistic children with the love and care, the security and the enjoyment of life, that we have provided our children. Some of us, not all, but some of us, break under the pressures of those facts. Some parents rather than leave their children to a world that they know will not care for them kill their own children and take, or attempt to take, their own lives.
Not all parents break in the face of the challenges and fears that haunt many parents of severely autistic children but some do. All of us know that it is highly unlikely that anyone will provide our autistic children with the love and care, the security and the enjoyment of life, that we have provided our children. Some of us, not all, but some of us, break under the pressures of those facts. Some parents rather than leave their children to a world that they know will not care for them kill their own children and take, or attempt to take, their own lives.
The world of "autism" awareness is cursed by a group of fellow parents that attacks these parents for any effort to treat their own children, who do nothing to help those parents and their children in any meaningful way. They most assuredly will not provide any meaningful assistance to the children whose parents they condemn for trying to end their existence to prevent their adult autistic children from suffering lives on streets, hospital wards, jails and mental health institutions. They do not realize that those parents are broken, just broken, by the realities they and their children face and the children will face after their parents are gone. Yes, they are broken by the realities their children will face after they are gone; NOT by people talking about those realities as some erroneously claim.
These alleged thinking persons who purport to offer guides to autism and who attack all parents who do not drink from their "autism is a gift kool-aid" do nothing because they too are broken, their common sense is broken, their ability to see autism realistically is broken, shattered under the weight of their irrational belief system.
We are all people. Ultimately our bodies outlast our limited time warranties. None of us can dare claim we are unbreakable. The alleged thinking persons would do well to remember that reality as 2013 slips away and their own children age and move closer to their own very uncertain futures.
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