Testimonies: Dealing with rude comments about your special needs child 7 Articles

by Crystal Cook

There is no shortage of rude people in this world. Ignorance abounds and prejudice thrives. There are those out there who look at our differences and condemn us for them, I almost pity them. In my eyes, they are the small ...read more

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by Vanessa Miller

I've had similar experiences before, but NEVER with someone from the medical profession. That nurse was WAY OUT OF LINE! I too pray she never has the opportunity to treat an autistic child. The first thing she said wrong i...read more

by Brandi Ferster

An Autistic Child has a hard enough time in social situations, but add a rude person into the mix and it can be disaster. While taking my child Pizza Hut for a special event, my son (who is 9 yrs old and has Mild Autism) w...read more

by Loreen Hutchins

Before I had my son, I never really paid attention to the way people would criticize people for what they were doing. Others have a way of judging people without really knowing what is going on. My son is now twelve and...read more

by Pippa Bruckland

Let me ask you a question, how judgemental are you? A lot, a little, not at all, are you sure? So if I told you my daughter wasn't breastfed, that she's nearly two and almost always has a dummy, that she's slept in the sam...read more

by Carl Baty

Of all of Patty's children, Darnell was the most troubled. Patty had dropped him as a baby, and he was classified as dysfunctional. He took advantage of this classification and decided it was an excuse for not having to tr...read more

by Tina Case

It was a gorgeous day in Gilroy, California last August, while I stood in an amusement park line with my 12 year old son, who has high functioning autism. He stared at the sign near the front of the line that read over and...read more