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‘Anguished’, ‘Annoyed’, and ‘Hurt’ are the emotions parents of autistic children feel acutely, when people mistake autism for some kind of disease and start behaving indifferent with their kids. It has become the need of the hour to cast aside assumptions and understand autism. So, it is imperative to debunk the myths associated with kids on the spectrum, in order to make them live a life of reasonable independence. Do you think you knew it all? Test your knowledge with the following myths related to autism:

1. Autistic kids are mentally retarded - Problem is not with these kids; problem is with people who have such mentalities towards children on the spectrum. Most people think that if children are not behaving savants, they are the exact opposite! However, several studies have debunked the myth that children on the spectrum are mentally retarded. Though some kids on the spectrum are difficult to test as compared to others, they do not lack in intelligence.

Rachel's just lying in her room all day unless I take her to an appointment.  She doesn't respond to me - won't answer questions.  Is she going to stay unresponsive like this??  Is it the depression...and can we overcome it?  What triggered the depression?  bullying? most likely..at high school.

I hate seeing my beautiful daughter like this and I'm scared out of my mind about her future.

Hello my name is Anna, we have a 29 yr old Son who has mental issues (aspergers and other issues)

I just need a place to vent i guess. He lost 30 pds is upsest with reading the Bible , won't get in a car anymore

and wont brush his teeth etc. we are going to a support group called NAMI just started the 1st meeting out of 12 this week. 

need to get him on some kind of Aid. im just over welmed!

Sad. Overwhlemed. Anxious. Relieved. Depressed. Apprehensive. Uncertain. Affirmed. - These are my emotions after leaving the develpmental pediatrician's office today.

What did I do?  What didn't I do? What can I do?  Will she be OK?  Will she grow up to lead a productive life?  Will she continuously struggle through school? Why did I wait so long to seek a second opinion when I knew in my gut that something "was different" about her?  Was it the fancy vitamins I took during pregnancy? Did I not control my sugars well enough through my gestational diabetes? Was it the vaccines that I was assured that were safe?  What about that reaction to the MMR?  But she's "high functioning", right? What if my husband doesn't agree?  Where do I start?  What does she need from me that I am not giving her?  Can I give her what she needs?  Am I a good mother? - Questions I had when I left the doctor's office today. 

So, this journey begins.  Help.

These days most of us have become more informal in our choice of words and expressions. Slangs, puns, innuendos and many other literary tropes dominate our usual talks. But, here we are not talking about “us”; here we are focusing on how figurative language can pose a daunting challenge for the autistic mind. A majority of children with autism interpret words and sentences quite literally. They are often unable to “read between the lines”, so to speak, which is why it is important to talk with them in simple and plain language.

Say for example, Dr Paul Jones told Natalie that she had “stomach bug”, when what the doctor really wanted to mean was “stomach virus”. Now Natalie’s 6-year-old son Todd, who is on the spectrum, looked visibly worried as he presumably envisioned an alien-like creature crawling around her mother’s intestine. Though it may sound hilarious for people like us, for children with autism it is really not funny!

http://youtu.be/B-_CvCdqjeM

I am a single mom with twin autistic sons who are almost ten they are my world......they were fine until their two year old vaccines and then Brock lost all his speech so i know it had something to do with the mmr vaccines....Breven is mild he talks and both of them are highly intelligent.....they are in different classrooms seeing that Brock cannot communicate as well both are in self contained Autism classes....i adore their teachers but where we live there are no aba therapists and this upsets me......i find myself stressed due to the fact that Brock has been having severe meltdowns.....pulling his hair out and almost like he is regressing please if anybody knows how to help me give me advice please do.....Brock is in speech but im trying to get him more....their dad is not a big part of their life he sees them four days out of the month i have a degree in working with special needs children but when it comes to your own it's hard....also brock has major sensory issues especially with food....has a poor diet i give him supplements and vitamins...but it makes me feel like a bad mom when we go to eat out and i have to bring his food he loves spicy foods chips etc......sooo in a