How would you react to an autistic child?

if you were to give birth to (or be married to someone who gave birth to for the guys)

an autistic child

how would you react?

 

I've got one.

We didn't know at first because he was our first child..so nothing to compare to.

We were cautious about the diagnosis, not wanting to pigeonhole him without being sure. I cried a lot during the rough times, worried for his future as we've needed a lot of help and support.

After a few years, I've totally accepted it. It doesn't bother me, he is who he is. If we took away the autism, he would be someone else. He hates it, and I've told him this. Also, I remind him that he also has abilities that come along with the disabilities.

 

my cousin is autistic. hes not a "full functioning" autistic and hes a handful obviously but i love being around him.

one of my good friends is doing research on autism in children and adolescents. shes studying their image processing, eye tracking, and memory. im helping her to recruit kids

to answer the question - i would be a little taken back at first i suppose because no one expects to have a kid with a disability (if you want to call it that) but i would def accept my kid for who he/she is. having an autistic child can really test your abilities as a mother

 

one word.. Casino..

 

i'm slightly confused. i mean, autism has obviously existed for a long time....

but it seems like every 8th or 9th parent couple has an autistic kid these days

i mean, is it becoming more common? that just seems like an unlikely thing to take off like that.

maybe as i'm older i just know more people who have autistic kids or similar issues, but i don't know. does anyone have any data on any proportionate change in autism in the population? increase, decrease, etc.?

i've known some autistic kids that were really fucking cool, and some that were really difficult to be around. i guess i wouldn't have an opinion so much on the autism as how they are able to deal with it one way or another, which i'd have to help with a lot i'm sure.

i dont really want kids to begin with, but if i had an autistic kid i wouldnt love them any less at all, even if they might be more difficult to raise. i wouldn't be happy about it, but i wouldnt piss and moan about it or resent the fact. if you are going to have a kid, you're in for some troubles one way or another. you have a kid and you better be ready to be the best damn parent you can to your child, regardless of what issues may or may not happen.

 

Yeppers. It can be exhausting. My son has severe meltdowns, one day I had to half-carry half-drag him home from school, with his fighting and screaming that I was not his mother and he hated me...
Then I had to sit with my back to the door for 2 hours because he was going to try to run back to school.

Things are getting better as he ages, though. He's going on 11.

 

The same way I would react to the birth of any child that was mine

 

running?

 

lol. no, euthanasia

 

lol

 

It is not something I want, obviously, I don't think anyone hopes for an autistic child, unless you're Orison, but I'd love and care for my child all the same. Having said that I have a fascination with how my kids would turn out based on the different women I could be with. I want to have a baby with all races, chinese, japanese, eastern european, redheads, native americans, I'd love to see how they would turn out with that kind of mixture. I think I probably will settle down with a tall woman, with good bone structure, only the best for my children.

 

race does not exist. all human variation is clinal and independent of common western notion of race. if different races of humans existed, the variations would be sorted according to race rather than how they currently are. race is purely a social construction. but i digress....

what i'm getting at is that even if races DID exist as they're commonly perceived, "redhead" would not be a race

 

Better get a pretty fuckin good, well paying job then man.

 

I don't know, I would have to know more about Autism to really understand but I think I would worry what the good ol' Indian family views on it are. Ain't no bitch be shitting on my child just cuz of something like this.

haha.. I lol'd. :cheers2:

 

It's all part of the plan.

 

I'd probably kill myself on the spot

 

if thats you in the signature you should wipe your mouth after eating. there's something weird on your lip.

 

A race is just a sub category of humanity, so no matter how variations are sorted, doesn't that make any category you can think of a "race"?

 

No sir, I just need to shave

 

no, because a race is not a subcategory of humanity. the idea of race is a biological one, and does exist, for instance, in the botanical world and such.

race is a biological classification further refined than a species, essentially a subspecies.

race in humanity is based pretty much exclusively on physical appearance, which is only one of dozens and dozens of biological variations in human beings. take lung capacity, for instance. people living at very high altitudes generally are predisposed to having a substantially increased lung capacity in order to more efficiently breathe the thin air. this is totally unrelated to the handful of generally recognized races to which the people belong (the racial categories are far broader than ethnicities and were originally based almost solely on the shape of the skull). increased lung capacity can be witnessed in the people of the tibetan highlands, an asian people, but not the people who live in the valley areas, who are also an asian people. it can also be found in the people of the andes mountain ranges, who are in no way racially related to asian people. these variations are based on geography, not race.

the same is true of all human variation. skin color, size, shape, red blood cell count, lung capacity, hair color, etc. are all geographically determined, making for significant variation within the so called races, but with some geographically related variations occurring across races. for instance, one trait may hypothetically carry over from ethiopia, somalia and eritrea into the middle east and up into central asia, without it being a characteristic of any one of those races as a whole.

this is not how it works with species which actually have different races. for instance, limes. the key lime goes by many names, and is a distinct species of lime. within this species exists the mexican lime, which is a genuine race. it exhibits darker color and thicker skin than other key limes. these variations are specific to mexican limes and are not found in other varieties of key limes. the variation is consistant and specific to the mexican lime.

with the vast range of human traits susceptible to variation and the fact that these variable traits are the result of geography rather than the established races, there is no reason to believe that humanity in fact has races. we're all one species and all different, but the differentiations are far too complex to call us races, because races are specifically distinct from the rest of the species. there is tremendous overlap in our variation, though.