Please can you help a broken dedicated single parent and carer of two sons with autism fight a corrupt failed system? My name is Pete Robinson.

I have dedicated my life to bringing up my two sons Both with severe autism on my own. I brought my sons up for 18,5 years never asking for extra help from my friends family or social services. Being a parent who took pride in everything I did for them and ALWAYS PUTTING IN 140% effort.

Bringing up a child with autism doesn`t come without its challenges as anybody in that situation will understand. Both my sons were very challenging in many ways, both like chalk and cheese. The oldest son has always been difficult the youngest son was less so but the opposite.

They say bringing up a child with autism is like bringing up 10 children not on the spectrum. I brought two boys up with autism on my own for 18.5 years. Dedicating every moment of every day to helping them grow in every way possible. There wasn`t a day that went by when both of them didn`t make me proud for something small they managed to achieve during the course of the day.

As a parent who had brought my sons up to love the countryside and not the computer screen, living in Devon on the edge of Dartmoor and Exmoor we loved the adventures of getting up early and catching a sunrise or finding the deer hiding in the undergrowth before the dog walkers got out there. 

Every day we had spare was spent hiking,taking in the amazing countryside views, camping, and fishing, I was teaching the boys landscape photography, basically anything to help them learn and thrive and gain memories. Striving for their day of independence knowing within my heart and soul that they would never be fully independent.As both needed 100% Supervision.

Back in March 2023, I reached out to the boy's day centre and the local authorities for a bit of extra funding My oldest son was struggling with transitioning between the day centre and coming home at the end of every day. Anybody who cares for someone with autism will understand. As they have been holding together all day and because the home is their safe place. I was asking for funding for a personal assistant to work with the day centre and home.

Very often the oldest son would come through the door having a meltdown sometimes they went on for hours or days as sometimes he found it very difficult to stop.

I approached the local authorities as a last resort as I could feel I was breaking under the extra stress.

What a mistake this was.

Never ever again will I trust social services. To cut a long story short it takes me apart every time I have to relive the experience of what came next.

The local authority decided from the word go that they were out to break up the happy family. I was made out to be a bad parent and treated like a criminal for the first day. They turned everyone against me and told the boys I was a bad parent and that they shouldn't be with me. Over the next few months when the boys were continuously being told this and being persuaded as such it was becoming harder and harder at home as the oldest son was becoming more and more challenging as in his own way was fighting what he knew in his head and heart was total rubbish. The challenge is if someone with autism gets told something enough they start to believe it. 

In July my oldest son suddenly didn't come home from the day centre. This tore me apart and worried the hell out of me. Social services had moved him to the respite carer's home. Then in August, the same thing happened with my youngest son this totally demolished my family and I was broken From then on I have not been able to contact or talk to my sons as they have blocked all access to them. Since then they have moved them to social living  SIX COURT CASES LATER I am still fighting them and will continue to fight for them. Social services broke the Carers Act, Human Rights Act, Mental Capacity and autism act in removing them from the family home. 

Social services have given me constant severe chest pains and PTSD  there isn't a day that goes by when I don't cry myself to sleep. I have managed to get through this horrendous time somehow but am asking for help from everybody in some way shape or form, whether it is mental support or if you have a few extra pounds spare it would gratefully be received. With ongoing court and legal proceedings crippling me and the fact, I had to recently sell my car. I also had to sell the course that I was doing to better myself which was costing money to continue although it was an incredible course helping me build my knowledge and website as well as a community of like-minded people who were incredibly supportive in everything course-related. I have used all my pensions to pay for the legal fees to date. Because I have PTSD I am unable to work so living off funds under the minimum wage. 

During this time I had also met someone online and we had been chatting for nearly 3/4 of a year together we had a trading platform in which we were supposed to be building a pot of money I could use to support the legal fees. Although we hadn't met we had communicated by text and phone calls regularly and sadly when it came to having enough funds to withdraw and use the funds half each. She took her half but it looked like I couldn't take mine as it was a scam which was another kick in the teeth as it was 40 000 USDT each that we had each.

I miss my sons like crazy and every time I think about them I end up in tears. It is like having my heart and two arms cut off. It has been like being in a SAS TORTURE CHAMBER FOR NEARLY TWO YEARS. 

So now I have no family, no car, no course and just about able to live.

I continue to fight for my sons  but am struggling 

Thank you again for any help you feel you can give 

Pete