SpiritBlooms wrote:
Some parents hate their non-autistic or non-disabled children.
It's often a problem with the parent not thinking through what parenthood is before becoming a parent. It's not all cuteness and dealing with a miniature version of oneself. It's dealing with another personality with different needs, strengths, weaknesses. It's dealing with all the hardships that come with life, and the special vulnerability of a young life.
Some people aren't capable of dealing with being parents, and shouldn't have children at all, because their lives are all about themselves, no one else. Or they're dealing with issues themselves and don't have feelings, thoughts or energy to spare for another.
It's possible the mother is also autistic or has some other problem. She clearly can't or won't cope with parenting this child. I feel for the child, who needs a parent - and apparently doesn't really have one.
The media narrative is different for abled children, however.
Parents who hate their disabled children don't get enough support, must be depressed, overworked, etc. People will line up to make excuses for them. They do it on this forum, for that matter.
Parents who hate their abled children are pathologically evil, however, and deserve every bad thing that could possibly happen to them.