The pushy parent theory

I know on  7 Sharp last night they yet again helped to make me feel like a shit parent by talking about forcing a child to do something younger than they should.  Please understand the only way Edward wants to even talk to us about anything is if it involves what he enjoys.
List of Edward hobbies;
Alphabet
Numbers
Rainbows
Solar System
Trampoline
Water play
Sand play
Swinging
Playing on the piano
Playdough
Likes watching peppa pig, Elmo, Bumble Bee Kids and pingu.
......

Did I say alphabet?
On long car trips from about 3 months old if we stopped singing the alphabet song Edward would scream the car down.  Other songs were not OK, but the alphabet to different tunes were acceptable.

I have never seen a parent manage to force a toddler to do anything other than when I have seen videos of autism ABA therapy (and we are not going there) and abusive situations and Edward is not being abused.....he runs this house most of the time

Anyway thank you for letting me vent.

Let's reverse autism

So frustrating being a mum with a child on the spectrum.  It seems like society is more accepting of a child that is being forced to learn how to get along with other people and for that child to be disabled.
And find it too hard to get around the fact that that same child can also be talented without being forced by the parents.

Let's throw this in reverse order shall we.
How would your typical child act and feel and respond if the reverse was true and parents expected that when happily or anxious they were supposed to spin and flap and jump?  And since they did not do these things but did this weird thing of looking into people's eye and talking far too early (yes the parents must have been really drilling talking into them far too early) that they would then need to go and get help and training on how to jump, flap and spin???

Well my ditch attempt to reach the people who can help in Edward's education - wish us luck

Well my ditch attempt to reach the people who can help in Edward's education - wish us luck

This is what the doctor who coined the diagnosis Autism said about Autism

I am actually really happy to find this because sometimes when you get enough parents telling you that you should shut up and that their child is just horrible and that I don't know what I am talking about and other mean things.  It hurts me more that they think that of their children more than my hurt feelings.

 Reference - http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=iFlFAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA6&lpg=PA6&dq=kanner+on+his+autistic+patients+focused&source=bl&ots=ABLXLHBJmH&sig=jQzNxkdpgJlwxP8r_2luhsHg0AU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=EJthVICNIqTymQWt6ILIDg&ved=0CC0Q6AEwCA