About my brother's autism + thanks all <3

[Bianca]

First of all I wanted you all to know how sweet you all are and I really mean that. I sometimes feel very depressed but it really helps me being here and I also feel a lot better thanks to your support.

What is bugging me about my brother...I told you all that he is back at the clinic and I have spoken a lot to my parents the past few days. My brother is at the clinic, pretending nothing ever happened but he refuses to talk to my parents. But the real problem is the people there are saying they can't keep him locked up!!

They say it's according the law. So, it's only waiting till he runs off again. I really don't understand this "law". What if he ends up dead?? What does the law do then? Who is to blame? I was worried sick and I don't want to go through this again. My dad says that people with autism think very "simple" he saw something on television about Moscow so he was like, I'm going to Moscow! I don't know. I hardly have any contact with my brother, I try, but it's difficult. When I ask him how are you? He is always so negative and I don't feel like they are really helping him at this clinic. I always hear he is sleeping all day and watching telly, he says it himself, I'm just sitting here. Well thanks for listening, I just wanted to vent and thank you all. I really appreciate it!

 

[Hawkeye]

Autism is a very strange disease. When I say strange - I mean we know a lot about it but we know nothing about it. It's a very vague disease. Especailly since the word Autism covers such a HUGE spectrum of meanings.

When I used to work with the County School system I was priviledged to work with Autistic children and some were in their own world, some you could communicate to, some acted like normal human beings some acted like kids just with a quirk. I was even more fortunate to have a woman who specialized in Autism to help teach me.

Some laws, I don't the laws of the country you are in but I know in the US there are just some laws I dont think we're ment to understand. Even though it would make sense to do something of the nature to protect your brother.

And it's very true about one word or soemthing that will make someone with Autism just decide I want to do this. For example (Funny story), I was working with a cute little autistic kid who had at the beginning of the year went down to a room and a kid let him use a mahogony crayon. Well that was fine and all but 6 months later we were on the playground I was watching this kid (Scott) and he decided he wanted the Mahogony crayon. Well he crawled up on the monkey bars then jumped off and started running around the outside of the school. I should tell you I'm not a runner but I took off after him.
We circled the school 3 times, and im about to die because I'm out of breath and finally he decided to go inside. The other parapro was following me brought his twin brother who was also autistic and I we ran through the building through a couple of class rooms and upstairs and downstairs and all around and finally we get to this room where I shut the door and see him sitting silently at this kids desk holding the mohogony crayon.

Luckily a teacher had excused herself from her students after this fiasco and followed me and we have a button to push to notify the principal of any going ons and the principal at the time came down and finished up (while I was hyperventilating lol)

But all of that was for one mahogony crayon. And it had to be that one at that desk.

So it's very true Autistic people will get an idea in their head and do it.

If you ever need to vent about Autism please let me know I'd love to hear about it and if you have any questions please feel free to ask me, I'm no expert by any means but I am fascinated with Autism.

 

[Bianca]

Thanks for your message, it is very helpfull! If I have questions, I will certainly turn to you, very kind of you!