Commentary: Where’s the support for adults with autism?
July 19th, 2008Writing in the Washington Post, novelist Ann Bauer (no relation) says she’s jealous of parents whose adult children have Down syndrome.
Bauer, whose son has autism, says family members of people with Down syndrome have “figured out a cohesive, workable system of support,” while the autism community is divided and disorganized.
She wishes the autism community could take a lesson in cooperation from families of people with Down syndrome, but fears that high rates of selective termination will ensure that “the power of their parent group is shrinking, as is the world’s mosaic of human form.”
Someone has to talk to those wise parents before they die out, or I fear our children with autism will continue to wander through a world where they never fit.
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