Ignorance is not bliss

When the diagnosis came down the pipe and we got the brand-new shiny label stuck on our child's forehead we went looking for answers to the squillions of questions that were rampaging through our minds.
I don't think I stopped reading or researching once we'd got our heads around the meaning behind the label; books and news articles were recommended from friends and chased up, diets and vitamin supplements researched then discussed with doctors, biographies and autobiographies read and discussed at length.
Heck, I even (briefly) researched freakazoid Bettelheim and his 'refrigerator mother' concept just to have information to fight the ignorance still lingering today which is his destructive legacy to those on the Spectrum.

We are legion

They say we're having an explosion of Autism with more kids than ever before being diagnosed as somewhere on the Spectrum.
I don't doubt this, having met a plethora of other parents exploring the new pathway marked Autism; each time you meet someone new you look at each other as members of an exclusive club with secrets that only the other person would fully understand.