http://nationalautismassociation.org/the-wrong-questions-are-being-asked-about-mikaela-lynch/
This article above about a little girl who wondered away from home, found a body of water, and drowned. She had Autism and couldn't speak. And her mommy only took her eyes off of her for just moments and this is what happened.
You see Abbie has autism, she loves water, and I am so scared she will wonder away. IT IS MY GREATEST FEAR.
People just don't understand! They blame the parents. Let me ask you - as a parent of a "typical child" do you ever take your eyes off your child. Of course you do, you let them play in there room, you let them play outside in the back yard, what about the park to you worry they will wonder off, most likely No.
But a parent of a child with Autism can't do that, we must be with our child all the time because they can get hurt or wonder off so easily - and it is not their fault, it is not the parent's fault.
Every day we work with Abbie to respond to us when we call her name, but she doesn't all the time, she sometime comes to us sometimes don't. My experience any time we are around the water, she runs right to it. There have been several times I got to her before she fell in! The fear can be overwhelming.
I just wish people would stop judging - it is hard enough that our children are ridiculed, bullied, treated poorly by teachers that people just assume that when a child with Autism is hurt it is the parents fault! Those parents in the article above are devastated there child died, and they blame themselves for taking theirs eyes off of her for just one second. Because unfortunately it only takes a second!
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