some good things to read

I'm tired of being assaulted by controversy every time I read an article about autism. They are written by people that are just reporting a story and have no connection to anything or anyone with autism. We only see the sensationalism because that is what people want to read and those people being sensational make a lot of noise. Many more of us spend our days living with and loving an autistic person. I would not change my child for anything, even though he has been upset with me for the last hour because it isn't 10am yet and he can't play age of empire yet. Apparently he is packing his soldiers up and going to grandmas, the fact that he can convey this to me is fantastic, he is rather cross and we are having lots of little talks and back rubs but I can see it going until 10am when I turn on his computer.

I also know I will give in as soon as I have finished this because I hate to see him upset and even though he knows the 10am rule, he is still only 6 and 10am must seem like forever away.

So today the first day of the holidays and I am following blog posts and articles about autism by the autistic. I want Alec to be at peace with his autism when he is an adult and with information like this we can only get a better understanding

This one I love -

Autistics Need Acceptance, Not Cure An article critical of "autism awareness"

Don't mourn for us an article about the autistic child in our life, it may seem a little harshly written but I have come across people like he is talking about.

I admit I went through a grieving process after Alec's diagnosis but you can't do that for long because it was my job to make sure he got as much help as he needed, I am his advocate. I realised about a year ago that we could give him the tools to communicate and help make his body stronger but we could not expect him to understand our world, it is a different world, so what we have to do is make the effort to understand his world.

Aspergian pride advocates recognition and acceptance of the autistic community as an intelligent, competent minority group with many worthwhile qualities.