Having a family member
with Autism means you have to think outside the box. My very close
friend has a daughter that has autism. Every time I have a
conversation with her, I think that that there just isn't anything
wrong with her, there is something wrong with the world. I was
talking with her the other day and she says, “Pam do you have a
friend girl yet?” Which is the term we had to give her for girls
that someone might be interested in dating. I had to reply that No I
was still single, but perhaps maybe someday I would. I told her that
a girl in Thunder bay was coming out to see me. “Oh it's too bad
she went to prison.” I blinked and thought maybe she knew
something about my potential date that I didn't (it'd be par for the
course though considering my dating history). “I don't believe she
went to prison”, I tentatively replied. “Thunder bay is where
they send all the criminals.” I couldn't follow her logic. I know
she has a point and there is a TON of stuff that she knows that I
don't. “Um honey I don't think that is the right city”. I'm now
racking my brain to think if there is a major prison up there or not.
“Yes it is, it's where they send the army guys.” Now I'm
thinking she's mixing up the club fed prison in Edmonton, then her
mother pipes up, “No sweetheart that's Guantanamo bay”. I'm
dying laughing now, carefully because I wouldn't want her to think
I'm laughing at her, but the innocents is so funny and so is the
simple mistake. There was no judgement that my date might have been
a criminal of war, but just sorry she had this fictional experience.
Then she says, “Pam I know why you haven't found a girlfriend yet.”
Oh I said, why is that. I'm curious to see what her take is on it
and also very afraid she's going to tell me that I have chronic
halitosis or something. “It's because you're super awesome and you
need to find some one who is equally as awesome to be with you.” Oh
my goodness, my heart is bursting out of my chest. “Oh ___ I love
you, can I give you a hug?” “Nope” she says. My feelings
aren't hurt, she'll hug me when she wants to and that is more than
okay. She makes the world a better place, she's also incapable of
lying which means I really am super awesome. I have to wonder why
they consider autism a disability, what if the world was like this.
Honest and loving. What kind of a world would we live in then? What
kind of heaven would that be. Instead we have people who would take
that innocents and mistreat people with autism. I recently came
across a news story that made me want to vomit and left me crying.
It's a story about a bunch of teens who bullied an autistic boy.
Under the guise of doing the ALS ice bucket challenge they filled the
bucket with excrement, urine and all sorts of other bodily fluids and
cigarette butts and dumped it on the teen. I saw my friends child's
face and realized that I probably would have gone to prison. What
kind of a backwards world do we live in that these jewels would be
thrown away and discarded in the mire of human waste. And they still
shine so brightly. How can the world not want to protect such
innocents? If you really want to know what kind of a human-being you
are ask an autistic child. Get to know them. Value them because
they are priceless. The story is here
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