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HERWriter (reply to Anonymous)

I agree, there are many supports available to Aspies, from children to adulthood. I searched the net for hours for information on NT children of Aspies and was very disappointed to find there was so little. And there needs to be alot of information, because many NT children of Aspies grow up having felt invisible, unimportant, in their families and even in their own lives. Some have been angry, some have felt guilty, because they thought they were somehow wrong in chafing against this vacuum that many of them have experienced. 

I think it's important for NT children of Aspies to be able to say what they feel, and what they felt growing up. Many have never had the chance or felt they had the right, or till recently the understanding, to be able to talk about these things.

I've seen a number of people saying that not all Aspies are like that, and I would just point out, my article has not try to say all Aspies are alike in any respect. In fact, this article is really not meant to be about Aspergers syndrome at all. It is about AS offspring.

I would also like to say that this article was not written with the intention of giving everyone equal time. The comments in that vein are really off topic. This article was written for NT children of Aspies. If anyone is offended that that's all I wrote about, please be aware, that is what I set out to do.

I felt, and still feel, that many NT children of Aspies have a life experience where they are somehow left out of the picture, from the time they are small. They are unheard in a way that may be unique to NT children of Aspies. This has not been discussed anywhere that I know of, until very recently. It needs to happen more.

Am I saying that all Aspies will raise wounded children? I will say one more time, of course not.

But this article is not about them. It is about the forgotten ones. Today, in this thread of comments, in this article I have written, they are not forgotten. And the subject will not be turned from them to someone else. Not this time.

April 7, 2012 - 12:40pm

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