Meghan Ashburn tells Newsweek about her sons' autism diagnosis in this original essay.
However the assessor told me the reason he didn't feed the doll was because he didn't care about the doll's feelings—because he didn't have any empathy. I was told my son had avoidant behaviors which could be corrected in Applied Behavior Analysis therapy.
I was astonished. I sat there thinking: I am an educated white woman, if I am receiving this type of language and this sort of misinformation, what about those who don't have that type of privilege I do and may have to go off what the doctors are telling them. Soon I started learning from autistic people, and from non-speaking autistic people. I learned more about apraxia, a neurological condition which affects physical movement or speech, and I came to believe that autism should not be labeled as a"behavioral diagnosis."
For his first full year of school Jay was in a special education class. It was only due to constant campaigning on my part that he was eventually able to integrate into mainstream education permanently.
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