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Re: autismspeaks has ruined starbucks
« Reply #45 on: July 22, 2007, 04:47:20 PM »
I doubt I'm an NT but I haven't gone for an official DX- mainly because I'd rather stop having sex than have to talk to some stranger about the problems I have and also because I saw now much of a fight it was for Dunc to get one.  It took nearly 2 years for him to get the local NHS trust to agree to pay to see the private Dr (who is the only one in this area that can DX adults).
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Re: autismspeaks has ruined starbucks
« Reply #46 on: July 22, 2007, 04:49:46 PM »
Quote from: Hadron on July 22, 2007, 04:39:50 PM
Arent we aspies effectively banned from having kids anyway, I assume if we do so there is a big chance of the Social people coming to take them away after deciding we are unsuitable.

aspies aren't banned from being parents. ::)
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Re: autismspeaks has ruined starbucks
« Reply #47 on: July 22, 2007, 04:52:45 PM »
Quote from: purposefulinsanity on July 22, 2007, 04:47:20 PM
I doubt I'm an NT but I haven't gone for an official DX- mainly because I'd rather stop having sex than have to talk to some stranger about the problems I have and also because I saw now much of a fight it was for Dunc to get one.  It took nearly 2 years for him to get the local NHS trust to agree to pay to see the private Dr (who is the only one in this area that can DX adults).
Oh yeah, the NHS adult diagnosis system is supposed to be awful. My problem is that I have been diagnosed very young, so i am in the system already, i doubt they would give me a chance if i chose to have kids. You already had your kids for a few years before any diagnoses, and if your kid has been looked after so long how can he/she (sorry dont know gender) be taken away?
Oh and Bjork, we are not banned from being parents, but i doubt its unlikely that they will take kids away after birth...
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Re: autismspeaks has ruined starbucks
« Reply #48 on: July 22, 2007, 04:53:54 PM »
you doubt it's unlikely? :P
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Re: autismspeaks has ruined starbucks
« Reply #49 on: July 22, 2007, 04:55:28 PM »
Our son was 6 when he got his DX- but social services have never been in contact with us ever to check our 'suitability' to be parents.  I've never heard of any kids being taken off AS parents but I suppose it probably has happened.  :(
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Re: autismspeaks has ruined starbucks
« Reply #50 on: July 22, 2007, 04:56:47 PM »
i haven't heard of that either. Harry doesn't know what he's saying. ::)
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Re: autismspeaks has ruined starbucks
« Reply #51 on: July 22, 2007, 04:57:40 PM »
Quote from: Björk on July 22, 2007, 04:56:47 PM
i haven't heard of that either. Harry doesn't know what he's saying. ::)

Its an understandable fear though- Social services are shit at actually deciding who shouldn't have kids.
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Re: autismspeaks has ruined starbucks
« Reply #52 on: July 22, 2007, 04:58:13 PM »
Quote from: Björk on July 22, 2007, 04:53:54 PM
you doubt it's unlikely? :P
Yup, it wudnt surprise me if stacks of aspies get their kids taken away, possibly even at birth...
Oh PI, the fact that your son was 6 means that they wouldnt have suspected parents, it would have been when Dunc got diagnosed you could have had a problem. As for aspies getting taken away, i think i glanced a few articles where it has happened...
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Re: autismspeaks has ruined starbucks
« Reply #53 on: July 22, 2007, 05:00:54 PM »
Quote from: purposefulinsanity on July 22, 2007, 04:57:40 PM
Quote from: Björk on July 22, 2007, 04:56:47 PM
i haven't heard of that either. Harry doesn't know what he's saying. ::)

Its an understandable fear though- Social services are shit at actually deciding who shouldn't have kids.

true. unfortunately. but i think when you have no reason to think they would take your kids away for being an aspie it's not good getting all paranoid either. i mean does hagrid have anything to back up his claims of it being likely?
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Re: autismspeaks has ruined starbucks
« Reply #54 on: July 22, 2007, 05:01:44 PM »
Quote from: Hadron on July 22, 2007, 04:58:13 PM
Quote from: Björk on July 22, 2007, 04:53:54 PM
you doubt it's unlikely? :P
Yup, it wudnt surprise me if stacks of aspies get their kids taken away, possibly even at birth...
Oh PI, the fact that your son was 6 means that they wouldnt have suspected parents, it would have been when Dunc got diagnosed you could have had a problem. As for aspies getting taken away, i think i glanced a few articles where it has happened...

you're just talking out of your butt. a few cases makes not a majority.
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Re: autismspeaks has ruined starbucks
« Reply #55 on: July 22, 2007, 05:05:57 PM »
Quote from: Björk on July 22, 2007, 05:01:44 PM
Quote from: Hadron on July 22, 2007, 04:58:13 PM
Quote from: Björk on July 22, 2007, 04:53:54 PM
you doubt it's unlikely? :P
Yup, it wudnt surprise me if stacks of aspies get their kids taken away, possibly even at birth...
Oh PI, the fact that your son was 6 means that they wouldnt have suspected parents, it would have been when Dunc got diagnosed you could have had a problem. As for aspies getting taken away, i think i glanced a few articles where it has happened...

you're just talking out of your butt. a few cases makes not a majority.
Put it like this, people around me quite agressively attempt to persuade me not to have kids. As for articles, some of them were quite a while back, but there was something Minnette Marrin (she is a colummist for the sunday times) wrote about a year ago that got to me, which suggested some attitude witin social services against it.
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Re: autismspeaks has ruined starbucks
« Reply #56 on: July 22, 2007, 05:10:20 PM »
Social services generally don't take kids away from their parents unless there's a hell of a lot of evidence that a the kids are being neglected or abused in some way.  Locally social services have been involved with a single parent family for years- the mother regularly drinks so much she passes out drunk, she abandons her kids with neighbours to go out drinking and taking drugs, she has abusive boyfriends, and her eldest son has been in trouble with the police since he was 7 (including robbing someone at knife point with an older kid when he was only 10) and still they consider her a 'fit' parent.
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Re: autismspeaks has ruined starbucks
« Reply #57 on: July 22, 2007, 05:18:44 PM »
Quote from: Björk on July 22, 2007, 04:08:04 AM
i walk too, i've never wanted or needed a car of my own. i'm a lazy mofo but the day i can't be assed to walk to the store that's 5 minutes away, feel free to slap me hard. ::) it's amazing some people drive to go a nearby grocery store.
what if you are shopping for a family of five, for the week.
how are you expected to carry all those groceries.

and, don't you like icecream.  what if it melts?
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Re: autismspeaks has ruined starbucks
« Reply #58 on: July 22, 2007, 05:24:53 PM »
Quote from: Hadron on July 22, 2007, 05:05:57 PM
Quote from: Björk on July 22, 2007, 05:01:44 PM
Quote from: Hadron on July 22, 2007, 04:58:13 PM
Quote from: Björk on July 22, 2007, 04:53:54 PM
you doubt it's unlikely? :P
Yup, it wudnt surprise me if stacks of aspies get their kids taken away, possibly even at birth...
Oh PI, the fact that your son was 6 means that they wouldnt have suspected parents, it would have been when Dunc got diagnosed you could have had a problem. As for aspies getting taken away, i think i glanced a few articles where it has happened...

you're just talking out of your butt. a few cases makes not a majority.
Put it like this, people around me quite agressively attempt to persuade me not to have kids.

what people are these?
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Re: autismspeaks has ruined starbucks
« Reply #59 on: July 22, 2007, 05:25:59 PM »
Quote from: McJagger on July 22, 2007, 05:18:44 PM
Quote from: Björk on July 22, 2007, 04:08:04 AM
i walk too, i've never wanted or needed a car of my own. i'm a lazy mofo but the day i can't be assed to walk to the store that's 5 minutes away, feel free to slap me hard. ::) it's amazing some people drive to go a nearby grocery store.
what if you are shopping for a family of five, for the week.
how are you expected to carry all those groceries.

and, don't you like icecream.  what if it melts?

i buy for the day. usually just wine. :P ice cream has calories.
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