Parenting
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Parenting is a touchy subject within many autistic spaces because of the historical tensions between autistic advocates and parents of autistic people as well as relationships between autistic people and their own parents. Parents are faced with information from many different angles when their kid receives an autism diagnosis, and it can be hard to know whose advice is worth trusting over others. There is plenty of writing out there by autistic people that gives constructive advice to parents, including entire anthologies like Sincerely, Your Autistic Child. There are also autistic people who are parents themselves. This category includes things that autistic people have written about what they want parents to know, as well as autistic people talking about their own experiences as parents. It also includes writings from non-autistic parents who have worked within the neurodiversity movement and the autistic community.