Just Who is Disabled?
Two days before Christmas I again awoke to ugly, black graffiti scrawled on my Balcatta property.
I was hoping to make it unscathed to Christmas Day, but didn't quite get there.
In the big scheme of things, it's not a catastrophe. I will send a report to the council, and they will come and fix it.
I have a son with high-functioning autism, and I can't put it in a report to anyone to come and fix that up, and sometimes I wonder if I would, even if I had the chance.
My son would not dream of doing such mindless damage to people's property.
I am a single mother, and he knows how hard I work to take care of him and make a nice home for us both.
My son has been to Tafe, has a part-time job and does voluntary work every week with animals. He does not smoke, drink or do drugs. He does not roam the neighbourhood at night vandalising people's properties.
It makes you wonder just who has the disability, doesn't it?
Name and Address supplied, Perth Voice, 2009.
Holy freaking tangent, Batman! While we applaud the writer's parenting abilities and think that her son sounds like a wonderful young man, is this really the best forum to ponder on autism repair services?
-Not the Editor
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