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Accepting Others

Accepting Others. Profile on Emily Colson and her son Max By Hope McMullin . Autism affects one in 88 children in the united States.

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Accepting Others

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  1. Accepting Others Profile on Emily Colson and her son Max By Hope McMullin

  2. Autism affects one in 88 children in the united States It has been said that being a parent is one of the best things in the world. How would you feel if your child was never accepted as a human? What if everyone stared at you, or gave you dirty looks, while you tried to spend a nice day out of the house with your child? Emily Colson deals with people looking down on her and her son Max all the time. Max is autistic, it’s not some horrific contagious disease, and you cannot catch it from looking at him. Everyone has their own preferences about things, and autism just makes autistic children’s preferences a lot more specific.

  3. Autism Affects everyone differently Every person with Autism is different. Even though they may share some similarities, you never know how each person will react to sounds, or even seeing one of their favorite characters. In the past, mothers of Autistic children were called “cold refrigerator moms.” (Hardman.) This was because they were blamed for making their child like that. They were said to have neglected, and did not hold the baby as often as they should.

  4. Just when Emily thought it was going to be “normal” day out On a recent interview on the television show Home & Family on Hallmark channel, Emily explained a disturbing encounter she had, when she tried to take her 23 year old autistic son to the movies.

  5. “I know he has autism, why should the rest of us have to suffer?” On a typical day out, Emily decided to take Max to the movies with her step-mom Patty. Emily knew from previous experiences at the movies that once they got seated, and the previews would begin, that the loud sound would trigger Max to freak out a bit, also she knew that it would only take a minute before he would calm down and be just fine with the volume. Through the previews, he was happy as could be, then he saw his favorite character; Kermit. This caused him to get overly excited, and loud. Of course he would quiet down in a minute. Just after that happened, the people sitting next to Patty, said “Are you going to make him be quiet?” Very calmly Patty said, he has autism. The people then stated, “I know he has Autism! Why should the rest of us have to suffer?” Emily quickly decided to leave, then had to try and get Max out of the chair, which was not easy, because he is a 23 year old autistic guy with his mind set on a movie, but once they got up and started to exit the theatre, they heard applause. People were applauding that they were leaving. Then they heard, “And don’t come back!”

  6. Accepting others for who they are There is a fine line of asking someone nicely to have their child be quiet. It’s a whole different story when people cruelly kick you out, and yell to never come back. No one should have to deal with something like that ever. Sadly Emily has to deal with things like this all the time, just because Max has autism. Parents with autistic, or other special needs children have to endure so much while out in public, it would be nice for them to be able to relax and let their guard down a little if people would be nicer, and more accepting of their children.

  7. Emily and Max

  8. Autism Acceptance

  9. Emily Talking about her Movie Theatre experience • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr2o39YgMUA

  10. Works Cited Colson, Emily. "Darkness in a Theater." Special Needs Parenting. Special Needs Parenting, 3 Jan. 2014. Web. 30 Jan. 2014. <http://specialneedsparenting.net/darkness-theater/>. “Emily Colson” Hallmark. Hallmark, 27 Jan, 2014, Web. 28 Jan 2014 Hardman, Michael L., Clifford J. Drew, and M. Winston Egan. Human Exceptionality. 11th ed. CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2014. Print. familyandautism.com https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&docid=eV-A3bkZon7j5M&tbnid=6wY2OdEw9q37oM:&ved=0CAQQjB0&url=http%3A%2F%2Follibean.com%2F2013%2F04%2F22%2Fautism-rights-human-rights%2F&ei=VodpU6HcC4mTyATX3oLgBA&bvm=bv.66111022,d.aWw&psig=AFQjCNGJ_Cmrzv_ShFDMyBBo4yLfaQjuKA&ust=1399510970658941

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