Can You Tell The Difference?

      With the recent J Cole and Drake comments about autism it had me thinking, we have a serious issue going on here. Its not okay for people to degrade our children and use autism in a negative way. So, here is a scenario for you.... Its a beautiful sunny day and you are at an outing with your family or friends. You see parents with their children. As you are trying to enjoy your day you see the children are upset and crying, running around, stomping their feet and maybe even throwing themselves on the floor. The parents are doing their best to calm their children down, but its not working. As all people do they stare with a confused face and make a comment like " if that were my child I would have better control over them and they would not act like that". Am I right? Probably, everyone who doesn't deal with autism will have a rude comment like that. My point is, don't be so quick to judge because that child that is crying, running around and stomping their feet, that is my child and she has autism and you wouldn't know. There is no deformality. Especially if you don't know autism and what to look for. My child does that, all children with autism do that. Even neurotypical children do that. They are human and they have feelings so if you are quick to judge then you are just ignorant. Learn the signs of autism and educate yourself about it because stares and rude comments really hurt our feelings. Our children are just children, looking to have fun and find their place in this world and we cant do that if there is hate towards them, because autism doesn't define who they are. I hope this helps you to understand and sheds light on this issue.