7-year-old girl with autism pens heartbreaking note to her mother

There’s nothing worse than knowing that your child is suffering in some way, be it physically from a grazed knee or mentally with what others are saying. For Angela, she couldn’t contain her emotions when she received a heart-breaking note from her seven-year-old daughter Cadence. Cadence has autism and recently she overheard some people talking about a news story about a child with autism. She then wrote a note to her mother, asking “Does being autism [sic] make me bad?” This led to a written exchange which Angela then uploaded to the Facebook page entitled ‘I am Cadence’. Alongside it she wrote: “What 'messages' are children hearing - from ourselves, from other parents, at school, from media and in the general community? And what are the 'take home' learnings, spoken or unspoken, they are internalizing from these messages?” The post, which received over 2,000 ‘Likes’ and was shared almost 3,000 times, went viral earlier this month.