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I have a daughter who is autistic and she is a teen but still at times acts like she is 7. I love her with all my heart and even though I have to walk her through some tasks I feel she is brilliant no matter what. I think my mom is embarrassed about this. Why do I feel this? Wellyesterday while I was on the phone she was saying how I should lee her do more such as cook for her brothers and watch them while I work and get them ready for school. I work nights as a cna my boys are preteens. So I told her I can't put all that responsibility on my daughter because she is not mentally mature. She was like just tell her to do it. Yes my daughter does know how to cook and she does watch her brothers but not for like a whole night while I work. If something gets to hard and stressful she does not know how to handle it. I explained to my mom how my daughter works and the minute I mentioned her autism she had all types of excuses to make it not true. Her excuses was because her father doesn't work and doesn't spend allot of time with her or she isn't near her grandma or because i'm going through a stressful marriage. Now everyone knows you can't just automatically become autistic because your marriage sucks and your poor. Then she was like don't tell no one. Now I don't just walk up to ppl and say hi this is my autistic child. Whenever I introduce my kids I say this is my son or daughter so and so. Now I have my daughter and her younger brother who has adhd and asthma in karate on the application it says to list any special requirements so I put down how my son has asthma and adhd and my daughter has autism. Which I know if I didn't they would've expected her to pick up stuff right away since there are kids in the class who are ten that can see stuff once and perfect it. The teacher takes time and works with her one on one to make sure she gets the moves. My mom didn't like that she got all red in the face kept telling me I shouldn't of said anything and how I should take her out the class put her in another one and don't say she has a disability. It hurt me seeing her react like this. I was hoping my mom of all ppl would be someone I can talk to and get advice but I see I can't. ↓
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