Many who have read my diaries, or gotten to know me, know that my daughter has an autism spectrum disorder, Asperger's Syndrome, specifically. I am currently shooting my second feature documentary, "One In A Million" about her specifically, with my wife and I being anciliary roles, as parents who both have manic depression, and are trying to raise a daughter with an autism spectrum disorder. At any rate, there was an incident at her school yesterday that has caused us to pull her from it. Most parents who have children not on the spectrum would be able to talk to the principal, demanding changes and waiting for system to work, but when you're the parent of a child with an ASD you do not have luxury of doing so - it's a risk we cannot afford. What bums me out is she has been saying "I don't want to go to school", but cannot articulate why, due to her disorder - so we took her anyway, and saw nothing wrong. My wife's mother has over thirty years as a special ed teacher, and stayed for much longer than I have been able to, wonder if they just let their guard down, and this has been going on all the while. It makes me sick to no end. The body does not address our full beefs with the school, just the ones that called for us to take immediate action.
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