[zargath]

My oldest son has adhd+autism. It is difficult to explain how hard it has been for him and for us as parents. The social and school situations is always a problem, it is one day at a time and we all try not to break. He looks like any other boy, but emotional(anger, nightmares, .. ) it is a roller coster and even his special teachers has a hard time.

So with that, I wish future parents will have it better and maybe some autism detection will help with early diagnostics. I can list so many things that my son cant do, that other children can. But at the same time, he sees things very uniquely and any groundbreaking invention will come from a boy like my son and not from my other "normal" children. Autism can be terrible , I wish that I could spare him all his troubles, but in some way the Autism is also a gift.

I cant help but wonder if some of our brightest minds all had some diagnose and was just strong enough to survive the "normal" life.

Best wishes to any person with autism and even parents struggling out on the interwebs.