So angry right now. One of the autism spectrum communities I belong to had a post from a 'concerned parent' who is trying to get some advice on getting her 15 year old daughter on the spectrum to shave her legs and care about fixing her hair. Why, why why for the love of all that is holy would you force someone who has sensory issues to shave their
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And truthfully, if her classmates are picking on her for appearance, and that's what her mother cares about, you'd think she'd have started there, not presumed that the only solution was to dress the kid like a supermarket manikin, and enforce that appearance by punishment.
Mom needs her feminist consciousness raised. She also needs to decide whether she wants a daughter or a manikin. Because this sounds like she's doing her unconscious best to produce depression and low self esteem. Those tend to lead to unpleasant places - but perhaps mom will be less ashamed if her daughter runs away, commits suicide, takes up self-hating promiscuity, etc. Just so long as she looks "normal". Or perhaps just so long as she isn't in Mom's sight.
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