maytoseptember
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Autism and cognitive impairment aren’t the same thing, unless you’re using the wrong term?Paddy's wife? The ex Miss Liverpool turned Real Housewife of Cheshire? The only gossipy thing I know is that Paddy allegedly had a fling with Nicole Appleton a couple of years ago. There are rumours that the twins aren't as cognitively impaired as she claims - but how true that is, I don't know. Autism is a spectrum of disorders after all.
I don’t follow Christine so can’t comment on the way she portrays her children, but this isn’t the first time I’ve seen her accused of faking or exaggerating her childrens’ autism. I find it hugely offensive, as the mother of autistic kids. It’s so ignorant. You might meet my son for the first time and have no idea that he’s autistic. He could be smiling and laughing and polite. But soon you’ll notice his unusual speech patterns, the way he mixes up pronouns and grammar, the difficulties he has playing with his peers, the meltdowns over buying the wrong brand of supermarket pizza.
Not only that, but like any child, an autistic child has good days and bad days. They behave very differently at home compared with away from home. No one has any right to make snap judgements about a child being “not that autistic” (and like I said, I’ve heard this about the McGuinness kids more than once) purely because they don’t fit whatever narrow stereotyped version of autism they have in their heads