So I realize anyone who's on this forum probably is already more open-minded than people who aren't to begin with, but I'd like to get your input/personal experience with them anyway.
On a personal level, I feel that I had a teacher who tried to tell my guardian at the time I needed some kind of professional help. I wasn't in the meeting so I don't know what was said exactly, but my guardian flipped out afterwards and told me I should start responding when spoken to. And that was that, no other actions were taken. But if it makes any difference, this was in the 90s.
I know autism has been in the news more often lately, but in my own family in the 2010s it was still spoken as some sort of death sentence, with them being fake-concerned over friends/acquaintances with little kids who'd been diagnosed as autistic (and thank God all of us here are normal, well maybe just that one boy who chose to be openly gay but otherwise phew).
But I wonder if mental health issues in general still carry the stigma they used to with the general public, and if it's still not OK to suggest to parents that their kids may be autistic and the sooner they look into it the better off their kids will be (unless, of course, they take the AutismSpeaks approach)?
On a personal level, I feel that I had a teacher who tried to tell my guardian at the time I needed some kind of professional help. I wasn't in the meeting so I don't know what was said exactly, but my guardian flipped out afterwards and told me I should start responding when spoken to. And that was that, no other actions were taken. But if it makes any difference, this was in the 90s.
I know autism has been in the news more often lately, but in my own family in the 2010s it was still spoken as some sort of death sentence, with them being fake-concerned over friends/acquaintances with little kids who'd been diagnosed as autistic (and thank God all of us here are normal, well maybe just that one boy who chose to be openly gay but otherwise phew).
But I wonder if mental health issues in general still carry the stigma they used to with the general public, and if it's still not OK to suggest to parents that their kids may be autistic and the sooner they look into it the better off their kids will be (unless, of course, they take the AutismSpeaks approach)?