Amy Sequenzia Accepting an autistic child does not mean ignoring the challenges that may be part of autism. A parent does not need to pretend that it is not hard to deal with those challenges to be accepting. Accepting autism and an autistic child is about stop mourning a child that does not exist and find the awesomeness on the autistic child in front of you. First, please read Jim Sinclair’s essay Don’t Mourn For Us. Second, I am not saying that some parents don’t love their children. What I am saying is that acceptance is about the child, or autistic adult, and their self-image. Parents cannot say they accept their autistic children if they demonize autism. I remember how it felt when my mother blamed autism for the way I did things. I felt like I was not as good as the other kids, I felt people did not…