My mom has a brother, who was born with a mental disability. It was never actually diagnosed which specific one but If I have to put him somewhere on the spectrum he is closer to low functioning autism. He can talk but repeats him self a lot and often screams, he can write but it’s almost impossible to understand, he expresses his anger physically and doesn’t know when too stop.
He should’ve been born in a loving family, with responsible parents that would’ve made the choice too let him live with them for the rest of his life or make sure he has a gaurdian in his own home. But no, he wasn’t even raised at all. Constantly kicked out of house, no special school, etc. Abusive family, sexual exposure at young ages at home, if he was ever able to learn en grow it’s been ruined by then. Now he’s a grown man that lives alone with a criminal record, coverd from head to toe in tattoos(literally) even his face is almost pure black now…
To which my family said he was an idiot and is no longer family because: ‘why would you do that?’ Well… BECAUSE he has no sense of right or wrong and been so traumatized by my family, he didn’t want to look like them anymore and the tattoos is how he copes with that. I also don’t speak to my family anymore besides my mom and I’m trying my best to make him feel included in the small family we have left, but it hurts to hear him constantly bring up the people who hurt him…
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I feel for him. Some people treat the idea of autism as a weakness and have this sink or swim mentality and that somehow it’s your fault if you’re autistic. I mean we have cops who have killed heavily autistic people and even when told certain people are autistic, they still abuse them. Society has to be more understanding, but it is not. There are many supportive parents.
It is, of course, horrible for your parents to judge someone with such issues. He obviously need serious intervention as a child, but he didn’t get it, and I feel for him.