I know you all hate the DM, but there's a nice feature on 6 mums of autistic children in You Magazine with tomorrow's paper

[ItsMargotBeauregarde]

I enjoy reading other mums' experiences, and this bunch all seem normal, pro-active, positive.. but a lot of what they say strikes a chord with me.

Liff.ey

I hope there's at least one in there who says it stinks a lot of the time and can make everyone's life a misery. Otherwise it won't be very representative imo.

Well the DM fouled up in a huge way with their recent article saying that we wreck families... which turned into what seemed to me to be an internet hate-fest about us on their discussion forum and indeed mn. Balanced reporting is great, though. It's not all fun (understatement!) but they portrayed all of it in a very negative way in that article. I guess this is them trying to compensate a bit.

Well, they're all quite positive women I'd say, but they can't 'positive away' the worry about what happens to their children after they die.

Actually, at least half of these mothers seem to have cut out corn and soya and sugar. The Ed psych who diagnosed my son told me not to do this, there was no evidence yada yada. I'm not sure I even have the energy to try and do another thing (on top of all his speech therapy, picture exchange communication work, appointments, assessments etc etc). I'm a bit crap and lazy.

Is this common? cutting out corn, sugar and soya?

How are you reading tomorrow's article? Is there a preview somewhere?

I'm psychic in Ireland and they give it with the Saturday not Sunday paper here. No idea why.

Ah

Some children with an ASD do react to dietary things. Others don't.

The 'what happens later on in life' thing is a big worry, yes. Whilst about 4/5 of us can/could live fairly independently with the right training and support, 1/5 simply can't.

I'm sure it is Riven but it doesn't make someone's child any less/more severe and so the problems can be less/more severe regardless. I don't think being well off makes it go away but I know what you mean, as Marilyn Monroe said a man being rich is like a woman being beautifulo "it helps"! I also think there is a huge difference if you have other children as well as one with ASD, I've been both in my time and believe me, that is VERY different. We thought for a long time that DS may be our only child because of my own health and that is a very different prospect to having 1 or more NT children as well plus the prospects of your child with ASD ever having any independence or ability to make choices (not opportunity).
I don't hate the DM, I dislike all newspapers except for our local rag.

ditto plus they'd need the wide angle lens!

wonders if the dragged through hedge backwards look is ever going be fasionable,