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Originally Posted by chuff me dizzy

No ,not for me she left an autistic child at home to seek fame on a tv show ,I find that terrible

It depends for me I guess. I think he's a bit older, rather than a very small child? I also don't think she's gone into the level of disability in any depth; e.g. is he in mainstream education with additional needs, or in actual specialist education etc.

My daughter who is autistic is 6, and is in specialist ASD provision primary school, and yes she would be extremely stressed and upset if either me or her mum disappeared for 2 months. However I know other parents of older children with Autism (age 10+) whose children would probably be really excited to see their parent doing something like Big Brother.

It also depends on the general living situation; I get the impression he's staying with grandparents, and some kids spend a lot of time with grandparents (after school, weekends, holidays etc.) and consider that a "second home" and "second set of parents" anyway.

Obviously, you can never predict exactly how things will go, but as she's someone who has been full-time carer and will have given up huge areas of her life to that, I strongly doubt she would have left him if she wasn't confident that he can handle it.

[edit] To add to that, as his sole full-time carer, they're probably on pretty low income and she'll be worried about his future financially, and may be considering Big Brother as something that could make things easier for them in the future. I feel like this is probably a bit of a mistake these days, to be honest, as I don't think BB has been a "career opportunity" for well over a decade and the only way it's likely to help them out is if she DOES win the show (which would at the very least buy them their own house / that security). There's no money to be made from it otherwise, sadly.