We live in hope. Thank you so much for your kind and sensitive words. We stand on the same line, don't be mistaken in that. So I was fine with hearing all you had to say. However, my son is indeed far from prototypically managed in his autism, considering my background in spiritual holistic science. For better, or worse.... time will tell.

Needless to say, all individuals can and do develop given half a helping hand... and yet I am concerned that we are not doing enough for (all) people who find it hard to know what help they exactly need. We then have to do a bit of cold reading of them... and then we really all need to work together and stop thinking about our little egos. You are so right about emphasising what people can do in your work!

It's the headstrong ones who want to but "can't" that become the problem cases and end up unrecognised as mentally impaired and must suffer our punishments for their incompetence (a vast number of prisoners are actually suffering from a mental handicap which went undiagnosed: they therefore never got the right treatment and above all never the protection and restriction they needed).

Love your support in seeing me as a mere mortal (and being personally devestated by much of what is autism). Such support helps lift me out of my self-pity and makes me understand that also autism is very relative!