Impact of severe non-verbal autism | 60 Minutes Australia

The love Liz and Sean Whelan feel for their 12-year-old son Max is overwhelming. They’d do anything to protect him. But it turns out it’s them – and their three other children – who need to be protected from Max. Max suffers from a severe form of autism which makes him unpredictably violent. Six or seven times a day he goes into meltdown. It means he can be angelic one second and out of control the next. The stress has become so unbearable that in a desperate effort to save their family Liz and Sean have been forced to take unthinkable and heartbreaking action.

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