Your CW working with Asperger's and HFA patients? Wow, it is a small world. My S7 has AS, and W has decided he inherited it from me. Never mind that I've already had myself screened by specialists in UNC's TEEACH research program -- and was cleared. But, no, my arrogant STBXW, an RN and a lay-expert on AS/HFA, still thinks they, the professionals, are wrong and she knows more than they do. Yeaaah, riiiight.
Yo NoCode...
Like our fallen brother Chazz, , my CW works with autistic kids too.
She in fact has a S:12 with aspergers. Largely "typically" functioning, however, has real challenges with transitioning amongst other things. Which kinda comes to mind on Karen's comment about letting her little one know about the D.
My CW's son, when he is not coping well, perseverates on the D. It keeps coming up again and again. D is a tough thing for any kid but kids with ASD have unique challenges with it as I have observed anyway.
On the thing about your W blaming your gene pool for your son's ASD, it is my experience that the blame game is a frequent fallback position in many D's... your son's ASD may just happen to be a convenient thing to point at by you W. Sad, but usually true.
I have seen the same blame cycle used with other behavioural challenges. Heck.... I was blamed for my son's exema! I half way expeced my X to blame me for 9/11. Anyway... doesnt sound like I am saying anything you dont conclude already. Just bothers me to see it happen.
ASD has enough challenges of its own... does not need to be used as a throwing brick in a D war.
, my CW works with autistic kids too.