I am a special education teacher with an enormous appreciation for the battles and obstacles that kids and teens with disabilities face in the school system(including but not limited to aspergers and autism). I am also very familiar with the ongoing grief that is experienced by the families of my students - parents, siblings, grandparents etc.who expected and planned for a very different reality. It seems to me that from this perspective, both individuals with disabilities themselves - as well as their family members and friends - need accessible forums for giving and receiving real support.
Personally, I also beleive my father has Asbergers. I know for sure that while growing up my emotional needs were not met. I have spent years in intensive recovery from the various complications of that. I have never googled the "asbergers parent" before, and am glad that tonite I did. Are there others out there who have longed for eye contact from a parent for (literally) decades? Or been brokenhearted and angry and accepting all at the same time of the "limitations" of a parent - or their tendency to get so completely worked up or stuck? How have other family members responded and what are the other family relationships like? My own family is quite fractured. Would love to hear back from other adult children of parents with (possible/probable) asbergers about their experiences....
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I am a special education teacher with an enormous appreciation for the battles and obstacles that kids and teens with disabilities face in the school system(including but not limited to aspergers and autism). I am also very familiar with the ongoing grief that is experienced by the families of my students - parents, siblings, grandparents etc.who expected and planned for a very different reality. It seems to me that from this perspective, both individuals with disabilities themselves - as well as their family members and friends - need accessible forums for giving and receiving real support.
Personally, I also beleive my father has Asbergers. I know for sure that while growing up my emotional needs were not met. I have spent years in intensive recovery from the various complications of that. I have never googled the "asbergers parent" before, and am glad that tonite I did. Are there others out there who have longed for eye contact from a parent for (literally) decades? Or been brokenhearted and angry and accepting all at the same time of the "limitations" of a parent - or their tendency to get so completely worked up or stuck? How have other family members responded and what are the other family relationships like? My own family is quite fractured. Would love to hear back from other adult children of parents with (possible/probable) asbergers about their experiences....
September 16, 2010 - 11:31pmThis Comment
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