Parents are autism’s hidden victims
Children have autism, but parents are often invisible casualties. Their child’s disorder ricochets through their lives, breaking up marriages, draining bank accounts and robbing them of sleep. University of Washington researchers found these parents, among all with disabled children, suffer the highest levels of depression and anxiety symptoms, and parenting stress.
I think that everyone who may know the parent of an autistic child should read this.
[...] Original post by kibblesbits [...]
Thanks for the link. How does this figure into the reports this week that it’s the parents mental illness that produces a higher incidence of autism? Maybe they should have read this first too!
Best wishes
I haven’t seen the reports on mental illness and autism, until now and as far as I know, we’re just peachy on the mental health front!
[...] treadmarkz wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptParents are autism’s hidden victims Children have autism, but parents are often invisible casualties. Their child’s disorder ricochets through their lives, breaking up marriages, draining bank accounts and robbing them of sleep. University of Washington researchers found these parents, among all with disabled children, suffer the highest levels of depression and anxiety symptoms, and parenting stress. I think that everyone who may know the parent of an autistic child should read this. [...]