My son is a monster with autism says his loving mother

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[Daily Mail, UK]

Jan Greenman's glamorous life and happy marriage were turned upside down when her son Luke developed ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and Asperger's Syndrome - a form of autism - after falling gravely ill with a brain disease at just seven weeks old.

Now, in her new book Life At The Edge, Jan, 49, who lives in Hullavington, Wiltshire, and is divorced from Luke's father Paul, writes with searing honesty about the impact her son's shocking behavioural problems have had on her family.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/f ... ge_id=1879

That headline says it all... What kind of 'loving mother' would refer to her own son as a monster?

I find it interesting that the 'monster' term isn't mentioned in the article.
Are we sure it is she saying this and not the paper saying it for effect?

I don't see anywhere in the article where she calls him a "monster" herself. The word appears only in the headline and in the text under the photo.

That may be the newspaper's addition.

Same thread appears in general discussion. the "monster" part is part of the title of her book about it.

Don't trust anything you read in the Daily Mail.

I think that typically the writer's editor writes the headline. His job is to sell the story.

its to sell her book, [snark] poor thing[/snark]

Her writing is crap.Those trees did not deserve to die to print it on.There certainly is some irony in how people with AS are described as insensitive to others feelings(or lack empathy)but this women never seems to understand anything her son is dealing with but focuses on her own suffering....give me a break.

Yes exactly! I'm fed up of reading about how people with ASDs lack empathy when NTs may well understand each other but seem unable (or more likely unwilling) to make the effort to understand people with ASDs!

Firstly people with AS can empathise, we just find it a little more difficult and sometimes need people to be more specific when they are describing their feelings to us.

Secondly - NTs seem to have selective empathy! Personally, I think that trying your best to empathise - even if you get it wrong some of the time is better than the NT way of having supposedly 'natural' and 'instinctive' empathy but just only choosing to use it when it suits them!

I totally agree ... it's a terrible 'newspaper'
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She wasn't that silly woman who complained about her aspie son trying to get her to like his favourite heavy metal music, was she? I think she could have given a bit more thought to how her son felt and not just about herself.

She might get her "glamourous" teeth fixed, while she's at it.

This is an absolute waste of paper. Her writing style is shallow and her plot is "pity me because I had to raise a child who was not normal." Foolish, spoiled woman.

She says she wanted to kill him; that's not very loving.

I'm glad my parents didn't think this way about me. I wasn't at all loveable at that age, but my parents never gave up on me.

The article says her title is: "Life At The Edge: Living With ADHD And Asperger's Syndrome".