Children with autism do not show social attachments, even to parents?
I think the authors got it wrong, it is untrue that children with autism do not show social attachments or attachment to their parents.
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Children with autism do not show social attachments, even to parents?
I think the authors got it wrong, it is untrue that children with autism do not show social attachments or attachment to their parents.
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Dream Walden 
Ummmmm….. they definitely got it wrong! 🤭🤯😡😤🤬
Ben shows his attachment to me all the time. And he’s considered “severe”. What a big ol pile of 💩
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They defo got that one wrong.
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A good example of why the field needs you!
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When my two on the spectrum were babies I was often hurt as, my daughter especially, didn’t show any attachment to me. I was the same to her as a stranger. Now both are very attached to me. I would say they got that wrong too
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Well, I’m autistic and I definitely have social attachments. Generally only to one or two people at a time and almost exclusively to them, but I do have them. They are almost too strong sometimes lol and can seem suffocating to the objects of the attachment as I don’t attach to many people at a time.
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I didn’t show a lot of attachment to my “parents” (the people who raised me), but then, I don’t think many allistic children would have been very attached to someone who treated them the way my pseudo-parents treated me. Their own children weren’t, so I don’t think my less-than-“ideal” (but not nonexistent) attachment to Lou and Bea can be attributed to autism.
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I can name at least 2 autistic people who have VERY strong familial bonds, so verrrry untrue
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