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Turns out that their claims of the 80 percent divorce rate among parents of kids on the spectrum are totally bogus. I'm shocked!
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/05/19/au ... tml?hpt=C2

Me too ! Completely shocked !

They'll just claim that what they meant was parents who are on the spectrum are more likely to get divorced. Oh, wait, they can't claim that - they don't acknowledge that Autistic adults exist.

wait? you were surprised by autism speak turning out to be liars? and willard once you realised that they didn't acknowledge the existence of autistic adults why didn't you just delete the original point?

i'm so confused

That collection of buffoons at Autism Speaks had that one coming to 'em.
Always portraying autism as nothing other than an endless source of misery and an excuse to despair.

I'm more shocked by the comments on that page. One actually said that a lot of them are just too financially constrained to get divorced!

I always thought that statistic was BS. My hubby and I are 15 years and going strong, with 2 kids with AS, ADHD, SPD, GAD and OCD, and multiple anaphylactic food allergies. It's not always easy, but whatever, whoever said life was supposed to be a "bed of roses"?

And my parents have been married for a zillion or so years (sometimes happily and sometimes unhappily, which has nothing whatsoever to do with their kids), and my youngest sis is William's Syndrome comorbid with Autism, and me and another sis are likely Aspies or at least very aspie-like.

Even if it were true (that they were too financially constrained to get a divorce) - it would be true with or without a child on the Autism Spectrum.

In my city (the most expensive city in Canada if not all of North America...) the cost of maintaining one three bedroom home is enough to give my husband and I night sweats. I wouldn't want to imagine having to keep TWO three bedroom homes on the same income!! !

Again, this has nothing to do with autism - it has to do with the cost of living in most places.

I really think that some couples will have their marriage not work out - regardless of whether they have a child with a disability or not. They may end their marriage SOONER due to additional stress, but it was probably not a good marriage to begin with and would have ended eventually by separation or divorce anyway.