re: #128 Decatur Deb

Autism is a real damn burden, and it makes it difficult to help oneself. If you don’t have a good family to help you through it, man, you’re in for a rough time.

I worked at the Orthogenic School in Chicago, and from my experience, the kids who didn’t have significant parental support needed to be really, really dedicated to changing themselves, had to be almost cruel to themselves, in order to actually be able to make it on their own.

And since people with autism are basically suffering constantly, telling them they have to be mean to themselves just feels awful anyway.