There is an intense reddit comment from a mother who has an austic daughter and spills it all in the most intimate way. I think her daughter was older at the time of posting it too. Like 22 or something. I hope someone can find it because it is a really emotional and in depth look at those thoughts that you expect yourself to have living in a situation like that but you don't think people actually have. Some fucked up shit but very raw and real. And a good addition to this discussion.
I don't believe I ever caught that one; at this point my interaction with reddit is limited really to a few small subs that are dogshit. Although since I'm spending my evening drawing all over stuff with goggles I guess my standards might be different.
This is what I've found so far using google. The comment was probably from over a year ago or a pretty random post though. But these have me tearin up. http://vi.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/sl93q/get_out_the_...
The situation I'm in is not nearly as severe as those cases; my brother is still high functioning, but I still don't think I could do it. Personally I would abort the child; I know what living with someone who has autism is like. What I'm saying isn't nice, but its something that I would choose. Its hard; its one of the hardest things you can possibly do. There are different people in my house every day to work with my brother; we have to stay on a relatively tight budget even though my dad makes a very nice income, because my brother comes with costs of tens of thousands of dollars to keep him at years behind his peers. I love him, I really do, and he's high functioning enough that he will be able to hold down a job in a real work environment, but I couldn't do that to myself or anyone that I'm with. Its too much work, especially when looking at it from the point of few of a person who is still midway through college and has no plans of having kids for over a decade.
No, it was what popped up on google when I was searching. I didn't even notice that.