Jan 28 2009
Autism and Individuality.
Shouldn’t we all remember that as human as each one of us are and united in that aspect of life, we are individuals.
My mother was DEVISTATED when her approach to abuse suffered by all four of her children led to problems. When her approach to helping us deal with it helped only my other three sisters she sent me to therapy, in hospital, and when that didn’t help she felt there was no where to turn.
Even medications that typically treat “most” people do not treat all people. The ever-growing pharmaceutical world can tell you that first hand.
A child with autism is still an individual on the spectrum and should always be treated as such. Every treatment should be geared to their unique needs.
Still, there will be some that do not respond to traditional therapies, and yet others that just take an incredible amount of time to show progress.
Know that your efforts are not wasted. Even those who have been in a coma for years have woken up and told of things they experienced while seemingly unconscious.
A vegetative state thought to make a person devoid of the ability to experience anything is now known that they can be reached. Those who eventually come out of it report knowledge of things that were once thought to be impossible for anyone in that state of mind to experience.
The brain is a mysterious thing, we can try to predict the possibilities; however, mandating that human experience is uniform and therefore everyone will benefit from this or that is absolutely incorrect.
Individualism is not lost on the autism spectrum.
