blazingstar wrote:
Exactly.
Also, many persons coping with an autistic family member do get a "little" crazy. Sometimes a lot crazy. I'm not surprised that someone could not express themselves well.
People on this website, at least the ones who post, seem to be unaware of the intractable problems that arise from people with profound autism. I am not surprised that a person can injure themselves to the point that they need brain surgery. I hesitate to post this, because few will believe it, but I know a child who hit himself in the head, hard, over 40 times per minute, unless restrained or redirected in some manner. There are other behavior problems as well. But it is important to remember that many cases are WAY worse than what we experience.
I have profound autism and know of many others as well. You probably know how it is when someone is a clinic person as I call it. I've been around it my whole life both in clinics and special needs school. I have known and been around plenty of helmet kids and adults.
Usually when someone with profound autism or a parent of someone with profound autism talks about how things are I relate either from personal experience or from the experiences I am aware of. Some of what the OP wrote did not gel that way with me. But that does not necessarily mean anything.
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