{"id":1953,"date":"2025-02-03T09:27:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T09:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/addedattitudeclothing.co.uk\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2025-02-03T09:28:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T09:28:04","slug":"i-cant-ask-for-what-i-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addedattitudeclothing.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/i-cant-ask-for-what-i-want\/","title":{"rendered":"I can&#8217;t ask for what I want"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1953\" class=\"elementor elementor-1953\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fb2342c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"fb2342c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-39353c6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"39353c6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can you imagine what it would be like if you couldn&#8217;t ask for what you wanted, what you needed,\u00a0 communicate how you are feeling , if you needed something, if you were hurting\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NO? That&#8217;s exactly what Dodger goes through life every single day\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As parents we have hopes, dreams, expectations for our children. Just imagine if you&#8217;re hope and dream was just to have your child be able to look you in the face, to be able to give you a hug, would let it be possible for\u00a0 you into their world if even for a minute? This is what it is like being a parent of a child who is severely\u00a0 autistic\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everything tells you that you didn&#8217;t do this to your child, that you didn&#8217;t make this happen, but still, I still\u00a0 think it&#8217;s my fault, our fault, even though common sense tells me I&#8217;m being an ejit and there is no way I\u00a0 would ever had let this happen to Dodger if I had known what I know now to be the truth As a man, as a father, you always going to go to bat for your children, but being a Father of an autistic child\u00a0 takes it to a totally different level\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am constantly in fear , I am constantly on guard, I am constantly waiting for something to happen, being\u00a0 on the defense becomes the norm\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When do you get a break, you don&#8217;t, you are on duty 24\/7 365 days Patrol for the rest off my life. When you become a parent of a child, they say it makes you look at things differently, think about things\u00a0 differently, act towards things differently, believe me that&#8217;s nothing compared to when you have an autistic\u00a0 child\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These articles ore not meant to come across as feel sorry for me, look what I have to do etc. They are just to\u00a0 put out there a little something from my perspective, thoughts and feelings as a father and a husband of a\u00a0 child who has Autism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are loads of stuff what pisses me off. Just two of them are the way we used to get looked at when we\u00a0 were in public dealing with a situation because Dodger couldn&#8217;t express how she was feeling at that time.\u00a0 You could see in the Looks from people, it said things like, get your kid under control, how spoilt is that\u00a0 child, a clip around the ear would sort that. 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