I don't know if the parents are really trying to be "self-made martyrs". My mother used to direct a preschool for children with autism for many years; some families have endured so much trouble from society and various institutions just because their children have autism that when a legitimate issue is raised, such as the child being mainstreamed into a classroom or brought to church, it is immediately treated as discrimination, intolerance, or harsh indifference. While some parents might treat the situation as something it is not, it's understandable for me that over many years of only encountering that sort of thing, that the parents would immediately react if it were so.

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Dan Pemberton
Vacaville, CA

Member, First Baptist Church San Luis Obispo
Formerly ABUSA (We left, so I guess that makes us American Baptists Unleashed!)