Some idiot talk show guy who doesn't know poop from apple butter said autism is not "real" becuase there is no TEST to prove it... syndromes, he says, are not "real".
And what's worse is she took that to add to her repertoire of reasons why she doesn't fully accept Luke's diagnosis - some 2 bit guy on the radio who likes the sound of his own voice but knows NOTHING about ANYTHING! Rather than ME who I've spent more hours the last 6 years researching and trying to understand this than I could ever recount, out of love for my son. So yah, if you can't tell, it made me mad...
I hate to wish ill on anyone but one day of having to think carefully about his food and then an unexpected attack of cramps and bloating so severe that his head spins and he breaks out in a cold sweat and waves of nausea until he's quite certain he WILL pass out and actually wishes he COULD so it would be over... followed the next day or so by unceasing diarrhea that actually DOES make him vomit... follwed the NEXT day by such exhaustion that he can't function... I wonder if he'd think THAT was real.
Back to my old point, "Those who mind don't matter and those who matter, don't mind..." The wording isn't exact for this situation but the gist of it would be, these people don't matter... we know better and aren't we grateful to be more accepting of others since we have a clue what it is like to suffer from a misunderstood condition?
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Take care,
Michelle
...the greatest of these is LOVE. (I Cor 13)
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It is about as infuriating as when my mother told me autism was not a real disorder...
