For the three readers who do stop by, the name of the autism video I was talking about is Autism Every Day. As I said, very interesting to consider the responses.

I was thinking about this whole issue of grief and negativism yesterday, and it reminded me of the woman who contemplated crashing her car with herself and her child in it. I brought it up, and many of the mothers there had the same reaction I did, which is that this kind of grief and depression happens to many parents and we should be honest about it. And then I was reading this stupid Time magazine article on CBT versus some other kind of therapy to the effect that we should accept the sadness in our lives, not try to block ourselves from thinking about it. All well and good, except sometimes you can drown in it. Don't you want to stop sometimes? And didn't all those years of psychotherapy convince us that facing the pain and being insightful weren't going to make us any happier (well, all those years convinced ME, at any rate) and in fact might continue or even deepen the depression (thank you, Dr. Seligman)?