As a mum of 3 children with various disabilities/special needs id say this is very unrealistic. People don't rush to help you, other kids rarely come to birthday parties and relatives are embarrassed by special needs.
Other than that irritation... It has potential!!!
That's unfortunate in your case. In my experience people have usually been understanding and there certainly hasn't been any shame or embarrassment coming from relatives.
shareI'm not a parent myself, I'm a young woman who's grown up with a visible disease, turned disability/chronic pain and was diagnosed with Asperger at the age of 13. My experiences are a bit mixed. At elementary school I got bullied a lot for my disease (and I likely didn't deal well with it due to Asperger) though children did show up at my parties (that my parents insisted on throwing) the other children ignored me, or even bullied me when the supervision was distracted. The schools (elementary and high) never did much from their side regarding my limitations. In elementary school teachers just ignored everything that was going on. At high school any help I got I had to fight for incredibly hard (such as getting my classes on the ground floor because I couldn't walk up the stairs when we were moved to a building without an elevator despite the school advertising the elevator and other assistance for children with special needs, or being allowed to take my exams despite not having the required attendance after having 2 surgeries in that year.) By the time I was 15 my parents seemed to have given up, started travelling a lot and left me to fend for myself (with the house and enough money available.) I don't even want to imagine what the fight must have felt like for them, not knowing what was wrong with me for a majority of my childhood to then finally figure it out but it seemed impossible to find the help we needed, even now they seem to struggle dealing with my limitations, which has caused us to grow apart.
So in my eyes the show is very unrealistic, with a big need for drama in every corner without addressing any of the issues my family struggled with. But if I'm being real, that'd make for a very boring show and I'm just glad something like this is getting more attention and might inspire people to inform themselves if someone in their environment is going through similar things.
I think that, once it dawns upon us that this show is really about the control freak of a mother he has, rather than his disability (or even him!), we'll all feel a little more easy about it - because it really doesn't seem to be much about a family coping with a son with autism, more a mother who has made it all about her!
.........................................................
I'm the player to be named later.