2025-09-24 20:10 UTC
@the_wub@mastodon.social Sorry for the late reply, I got sidetracked.
Thing is: the poem didn't frame autism as anything bad — it's not the dads _fault_, it's just _from the dad_ — so reframing it as an abusive parental situation seems a bit, for lack of better wording, in search of a conflict that really isn't there?
Sure, the mother _could_ have been one of the "cold mothers"* the French are so fond of blaming for autism, but there's no hint of it.
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* a catch-all for anything from autistic to spiteful
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@the_wub@mastodon.social 2025-09-24 20:38
@Mabande@mastodon.social The ASP mothers I have met have certainly varied in the degree of "warmth" they show. I still would not have described any of them as "cold". Some of them are very animated and energetic. I don't see conflict. Rather a sharing of perceptions coming from differing cultural backgrounds and reference points.