Reply #2: Thanks for the hug. My son's autism is alot more serious behaviorally

[Ilsa]

than aspergers. HE can be very sweet, or very unexpectedly violent. I have a broken nose to show for it as well as numerous healed bruises. My husband has the same plus bite marks. Really ugly and dangerous stuff. It takes special training to deal with it, and hubby and I are probably the best trained to handle it. Plus, he tends to be very embarrassed about the outbursts. Hubby doesn't like atention drawn to himself like this.

There is another church in our denomination here. They have problems as well. Have been considering attending a Unitarian church here. But unless a church is willing to take us all with all our problems, I don't much see the point. Churches should be a place for lots of blemishes to be shown and worked on, not buried and ignored.

On Edit: I was really angry about the letter yesterday. "How dare they treat like this with all our problems?" was what I was thinking. I was wondering if shut-ins got the same treatment.