07-10-2008, 06:03 AM
07-10-2008, 11:45 PM
You get so angry when someone suggests you may be on the spectrum you go home and sharpen your coloured pencil collection.
07-11-2008, 12:10 AM
You get so angry when someone suggests you and your child may be on the spectrum you go home and use your multimeter collection to check the charge differences in your childs toy battery collection to exactly calculate it.
07-23-2008, 09:16 PM
When a child of yours brings his/her girl/boyfriend over to the house and you make your kid's romantic partner sit in a bubble if s/he has been vaccinated.
Sue your child's teacher for saying that Mercury receives the most warmth from the sun because the concept has been disproven in your child (loving your child less because s/he has been infected by mercury).
Say how much you wish your child would talk more, yet punish your child heavily for monopolizing the conversation.
Sue your child's teacher for teaching the theory of relativity because it was brought out by an autistic man because you believe that nothing done by an autistic is valuable.
Preach that what O'Brien did to Winston Smith in the Ministry of Love was one of the worst things that could ever be done to a human being, while chatting with friends about how happy that your child is receiving "treatment" in the JRC.
Complain about how bad your kid is doing in school, yet prevent him/her from obsessing over math just because it's a special interest of his/hers.
Hope you enjoy!
Sue your child's teacher for saying that Mercury receives the most warmth from the sun because the concept has been disproven in your child (loving your child less because s/he has been infected by mercury).
Say how much you wish your child would talk more, yet punish your child heavily for monopolizing the conversation.
Sue your child's teacher for teaching the theory of relativity because it was brought out by an autistic man because you believe that nothing done by an autistic is valuable.
Preach that what O'Brien did to Winston Smith in the Ministry of Love was one of the worst things that could ever be done to a human being, while chatting with friends about how happy that your child is receiving "treatment" in the JRC.
Complain about how bad your kid is doing in school, yet prevent him/her from obsessing over math just because it's a special interest of his/hers.
Hope you enjoy!
08-08-2008, 10:13 PM
You know you're a curebie parent if you are trying a bunch of mindless therapies on your child in order to make him/her a "civilized human being" instead of leaving your kid alone to progress in his/her own sweet time...
And you think of all autistics as children...
And you send your kid to a disabled kids' camp that they hate because you think it's more important for them to learn the all-important social skills than for them to actually enjoy their summer (this one applies to me, let me know if you have experiences like this or if you want to hear mine)...
And you slap your kid if s/he ever flaps their hands and then force them into an uncomfortable, Chesire Cat-like expression that is torturing (someone did this to me once)
And you think of all autistics as children...
And you send your kid to a disabled kids' camp that they hate because you think it's more important for them to learn the all-important social skills than for them to actually enjoy their summer (this one applies to me, let me know if you have experiences like this or if you want to hear mine)...
And you slap your kid if s/he ever flaps their hands and then force them into an uncomfortable, Chesire Cat-like expression that is torturing (someone did this to me once)
08-08-2008, 11:48 PM
your son has spent the last three weeks constructing a program to list his rock collection in alphabetical order and date found and when he is about finished you take over the computer and play solataire for the next 24 hours so he can't have his obsession.
08-09-2008, 02:11 AM
Whoa. You just gave me an idea, micgrace.
You know you're a curebie parent if you drag your kid away from his/her solitaire game so that s/he can go out and socialize even if s/he doesn't want to.
You know you're a curebie parent if you drag your kid away from his/her solitaire game so that s/he can go out and socialize even if s/he doesn't want to.
08-26-2008, 07:28 PM
You know you're a curebie parent if you're doing everything you can, even doing traumatizing behavioral therapy, to stop your autistic kid from hand-flapping, special interests, and playing with strings, but you refuse to do anything about your NT kid's illegal habit of doing drugs because "That's normal. I did that myself as a teenager."
You know you're a curebie parent if you complain about you're autistic child being horrible and wishing s/he were never born and you can't believe that someone is actually saying that all children are of value and you ought to be ashamed of yourself for acting like Regina George and the Plastics about your own flesh and blood.
You know you're a curebie parent if you get so mad about someone calling you a curebie parent that you have to sort your cell phone collection by how out-of-date each item is.
You know you're a curebie parent if you complain about you're autistic child being horrible and wishing s/he were never born and you can't believe that someone is actually saying that all children are of value and you ought to be ashamed of yourself for acting like Regina George and the Plastics about your own flesh and blood.
You know you're a curebie parent if you get so mad about someone calling you a curebie parent that you have to sort your cell phone collection by how out-of-date each item is.
08-27-2008, 02:53 PM
You guys just gave me an idea!
You know you're a curebie parent if you've been spending a bunch of money on quack cures and you can't see the connection between you and Charlie Gordon's mother from Flowers for Algernon.
You know you're a curebie parent if you've been spending a bunch of money on quack cures and you can't see the connection between you and Charlie Gordon's mother from Flowers for Algernon.
08-27-2008, 08:16 PM
Shrek Wrote:
tenaciouscj Wrote:
Hey now, just because somebody isn't in the paid workforce DOES NOT mean they are a failure as a person! Success is measured in many ways and a person who isn't working but who is good company to their parents and helps them is a success in my opinion.
It doesn't matter where the money comes from. It could be a trust fund. It is a moral shame if the money was illegally acquired of course.
But rest assured without money, and in loco parentis, in the place of the parents (maybe when the parents are dead), the offspring will have a major problem. Money does not grow on trees. and any evaluation of being a so-called failure as a person is irrelevant as an economic consideration.
Yes, if the parents are alive, and have money, and are too elderly to physically handle shopping, laundry, trash, and the young can but have no money, you can have a symbiotic relationship. I know, I tried it.
The only complication is when the other parent is trying to get the kid out the door because he (dad in my case) sees the kid as a liability not as a symbiotic partner Dad was so effective in this regard that my brother would not even consider the possibility of helping Mom at all, and in the end game, last 90 days of Mom's life, I did not want to take a leave of absence either.
Being female you may also be considerably more conducive to the care of an elder or incapacitated parent. A co-worker from Egypt said they had no nursing homes.... but I think he meant the daughters in law ended up caring for them. I think if Mom had had a daughter she could have "volunteered" to help, but absent the daughter, and given my brother worked first, I was it. Women are usually encouraged to "help", men usually get no such encouragement. I know the encouragement I got was to help by leaving.
That's a downright shame. And also kind of sexist. If a person needs help and doesn't have a daughter or daughter-in-law to help out, why not enlist a son if they have one? It seems like people think that you can only be selfless if you lack a Y chromosome and a penis. I have one male friend who frequently donates to charity and even does volunteer work. So doesn't that mean that the stereotype should not continue?
08-27-2008, 08:29 PM
You know you're a curebie parent if you believe that mercury causes autism, even though it's been disproven, yet you're defending the doctor that killed your child by trying to "cure" him/her by injecting a whole bunch of chemicals into their system that have been proven to be poisonous.
08-27-2008, 09:05 PM
Shrek Wrote:
Dad's family...... his sister (my aunt) helped grandma. Do you see a trend here?
Son... get the hell out of here.
Daughter... come back, we need your help.
This is kind of typical in America at least in generation X. I hope it is different in generation Y or at least generation Z.
Son... get the hell out of here.
Daughter... come back, we need your help.
This is kind of typical in America at least in generation X. I hope it is different in generation Y or at least generation Z.
What do you mean by Generation Z?
08-28-2008, 07:21 PM
tenaciouscj Wrote:
Yes. Mind you, Shrek has something of a sexist attitude here and might not realise that these days there are more and more male carers.
I'll keep that in mind (the sexist attitude). I am tempted to blame it on his upbringing, but that would be kind of senseless. Though that may be how it started, at this point it's not really an excuse for having the sexist attitude now. I'm not fully grown, but I already have different ideals than my parents on some issues. Both my parents are Democrats, but I'm more towards the right wing.
08-30-2008, 02:51 PM
You know you're a curebie parent if, when you hear that your child has been bullied and you find out why, you add it to your list of ways to make your child "normal" instead of telling off the bully (or bullies)
You know you're a curebie parent if you don't care if they end up with PTSD or depression (or even end up contemplating suicide), godammit! You just want them to be cured and normal and that's final!
You know you're a curebie parent if you don't care if they end up with PTSD or depression (or even end up contemplating suicide), godammit! You just want them to be cured and normal and that's final!
10-02-2008, 08:04 AM
You know you are a curbie parent when you take the spinning disco ball home and put it your room to watch instead of your sons because you know he will stare at it for hours.