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I Have a Child With Autism

I have 3 children with autism. 9, 9 and 10. One of my daughters is more higher functioning and she just got reevalutated for receiving special needs at school. (They all did).

Well, they just told me that her needs are cognitive. They said its not so much her autism, as it is that shes got lower IQ. I never thought about that. They think she'll always have lower IQ and will probably always be slow.

Ok. I don't know why, but after years of knowing my kidz have autism (like what almost 6 years now) this made me super sad. I have no idea why.

She wants to get married when she gets older. Wants to be a teacher, loves kidz and unicorns.

It hurts me to think that she can't have these things, and yet shes aware enough of them that she yearns for them. And thinks about them.

I have no idea.

Is it possible for someone with special needs to find love? To have a life that they love?

I don't know why the IQ is the one to break my heart, but it does.
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hereisme
Your daughter sounds intelligent to me if she knows she wants to get married and be a teacher when she is older its not like she is stupid or anything so who knows maybe she can overcome any learning disabilities she might have.

Also new medicines are coming onto the market all the time now and if they are 9 & 10 now they have plenty of time.

I also do not think there is any reason why people with special needs cannot find love they just need to meet the right person.
Even people who do not have special needs if they do not find the right person won't have love.

I think that one obstacle to people with special needs ever meeting anybody can be worried parents themselves.
My neighbours have a daughter who is in her late 30s she has non control epilepsy and her brain was starved of oxygen before she was born because of medical negligence so she is kind of slow and live with her parents.
She is certainly not ever going to be able to live alone or anything but her parents are very over protective of her, she never leaves the apartment unless its with her mother who is very protective on everything.

Her father would like for her to meet somebody because he thinks thats what she needs but her mother she would never let her.

I felt sorry for her and one time invited her to have a BBQ with me on a patch of land about almost next door to her apartment building her father thought was a good idea but her mother did not so the BBQ never happened.
So I think that parents can sometomes be part the problem I think there needs to be a balance the parent should take care of their children and be realistic about the fact they have special needs but at the same time not to be so protective they do not even have a chance of having a life

The good thing for people with special needs nowadays is the internet because it potentially opens up a whole world to them because even if they do not know people who are local then they can meet them online.

Why not see about creating a website like that yourself because you know what its like for children with these problems and I am sure most mothers of children like yours feel exactly the same things you do so set up a website as a place for parents to come together and for the people with the problems themselves.
darktippedrose · 36-40, F
I am becoming aware that I'm overprotective, which I am anyways. But I'm trying to let themselves take over. granted some of my kidz are runners and need lots of adult supervision to take them anywhere. the future may be different. and maybe I'll have to do it one day.
hereisme
Checked up for you there are a couple of sites for parents of children with autism

www.autismspeaks.org

sfari.org

On amazon they have some books on the subjects of people with autism and relationships
darktippedrose · 36-40, F
Thanx. Will look for it tonight