Do autistic kids ever get to be seen as children

Do autistic kids ever get to be seen as children? Why wouldn't we get to be seen as children?

I know I was a child but most of the people around me didn't seem to think I was because I was smart in away that other children weren't. Even my dad and most of my siblings. I am the youngest of 6 that I grew up with but people didn't think I needed help or should be cared for other than my mother.

When most of my siblings saw anyone treating me like a child they would sort of become enraged by it. As if I was not allowed to be one. They often acted as if I was a monster that only looked like a child.

I ended up cleaning up after my older siblings in my teens and taking care of their kids.

I think it's because my autism overrides my ADD most of the time. So I'm better at doing necessary but boring tasks and really hate leaving tasks unfinished.

I don't think most of my family even remembered they hadn't finished some they started.

When I think of all the times the milk went bad because no one could remember to put it back on the refrigerator but me.

But we all have skills and deficits. 🤷‍♀️

They are all better at reading, writing, Mathematics, and music then me.

The bad thing about people not thinking you are a child is that your actions must be deliberate and anything that happens to you is your own fault somehow.

I was a child, just an autistic one. I was smarter in some ways but I trusted people in my family. That was not good.

I was a child and played and sang and dance like children do. I just did it on my own most of the time. I always acted like a child I just didn't think the way they thought a child should.

I always knew it but I never understood it.

I often ran around pretending I was a fairy queen or an archaeologist or wildlife photographer. I hated wearing shoes and skipped everywhere.

So I still can't understand why anyone wouldn't see me as a child. It's was probably just to justify their cruelty towards me. They would never say or do that to a child so I couldn't be one to them. But I was never in any doubt at any point that I was one. But I did sometimes think I knew more than I did about many things but that's pretty common for children to do as well. 🤷‍♀️