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2015-12-27 21:27:22 Post No. 25293361
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But occasionally I'm triggered, and I say or write something. I have to. Well, I choose to. So here we are.
Let me put it plainly and directly: If you are a parent of an autistic child, you cannot hate autism and love your child.
If you hate autism, you hate your child.
Also, you are teaching your child to hate herself or himself.
Autism is essential to your child's identity. If you took away her or his autism - which isn't possible - your child would be a different person.
If you want a different person for a child, you don't love your child.
So, you aren't hating autism. Autism isn't a thing that exists to hate. It does not exist outside of its expression in actual human beings. We've just created an idea and given it a name and clustered definition, representing a shared way of being for some people. The only place autism exists is in people - it exists as real people. Instead, you are hating your child, despite your words and beliefs to the contrary. And you are teaching your child self-rejection and self-hatred.
Autism is no different than race or sexual orientation or humanity itself. It is simply part and parcel of a person's being.
I love my black child, but I hate blackness. I love my gay child, but I hate homosexuality. I love my son, but I hate men.
I love my autistic child, but I hate autism.
