Meaning of autism mom | Babel Free

Definitions

The mother ("mom") of an autistic child or children.

derogatory, sometimes

Examples

“So, Wendy, in the tradition of autism moms, you looked at an abstract with a very complex topic and saw therein some of its possible signficances in autism...”

“In April of 2008, CNN’s Larry King hosted a show on the vaccine–autism ‘‘debate’’ featuring Jenny McCarthy, a celebrity ‘‘autism mom’’ promoting a book about her son Evan’s ‘‘recovery’’ from autism.”

“No longer the abjected “refrigerator mother,” today’s “autism mom” is supposed to be a child-saving hero, expected and encouraged to do anything and everything in pursuit of normalcy, from special diets to special schools, from medications to therapeutic toys.”

“Why does the narrative that autism destroys marriages persist? Last year, at the Autism at Work conference, an otherwise wonderful gathering of business leaders from across America, autism mom and pseudo-celebrity Holly Peete Robinson gave a presentation trotting out the claim that 80 percent of marriages with an autistic child end in divorce.”

“Similarly, another article came from a woman who described herself as an “autism mom” while discussing the challenges of her “surviving” her child’s diagnosis, presuming that the child did not. Moreover, being an “autism mom,” according to this woman, meant being the mother of an autistic child, not being an autistic mother herself.”

“Due to starting my research early, my invaluable connections to other autism moms, and sheer perseverance, my son will be attending a wonderful day program.”

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