Given the prevalence of autism there is still no known cause and no known cure.
The challenges and stress it puts on the family unit are incredible. From relationship strains to financial pressure, plus the issues of lack of public awareness. These all put an immense burden on the family. Many parents are forced to give up or at least reduce work in order to fight for the basic provisions that other families take for granted.
While the infrastructure of society, from schools, healthcare, councils, emergency services and the public, are ignorant of the additional needs of autistic children, it’s down to their families to wake up every day and put on the armour for another day’s battle for their child.
Autism is an invisible disability. You cannot tell by looking at a child that they have additional needs or how severe their challenge is with everyday situations that you and I take in our stride. You see them as naughty or unruly and blame us as parents for being undisciplined with them.
Autism is on the increase. It is not going away and more and more families will be placed in this pressured situation. More and more public money will have to go into funding to support the additional needs of these children, and where that funding is not available, families crumble and the children live in a world where they are not understood, are punished for being different and grow up in a society that does not accept them.
We are parents with autistic children. We do not know what the future holds for our children. We do not know if they will be able to live independently from us, whether they will find love, get married, have children of their own. We do not know how society will treat them. All we know is that we love them unconditionally, and will do what we must to improve their chances of living a life of opportunity like any other child
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