Mum's video about an incident with her autistic son is something everyone should listen to

Any parent who has a child with a disability knows just how hard it can be trying to get others to understand their kids.

And that's exactly the battle that mum-of-two Kate Swenson faces on a daily basis.

Taking to her Facebook page, Finding Cooper's Voice, Kate shared an incident in the park which involved her eldest child, Cooper, who is non-verbal autistic.   

The mum and her son were in Madison's Place Playground, Minnesota – a playground built ESPECIALLY for children with special needs – when the six-year-old accidentally knocked a girl down a slide.

The girl was, thankfully, unharmed, but that didn't stop her parents having a go at Kate -despite her informing them about her son's disability.

"I'd like to tell the story, because it's got to change – or people like me … I will never be able to leave my home," she said in the video which has over 683K views.

"Before the father even checked on the child, he yelled at me and yelled at my son. I apologised to these people five times and I tried to explain that he has severe non-verbal autism."

Cooper, who didn't understand the situation, ran off to play, and the father continued to yell at Kate, even questioning why  they were in the park in the first place. 

"I couldn't speak. I had told them that he has autism. I tried to explain it and it wasn't enough.

They continued to yell at me and I found my son, who was having the time of his life, and I had to physically remove him from the special needs park."

Clearly devastated by the incident, Kate then took to her Facebook page urging others to look beyond what they see, describing her son's disability as invisible.

"Tell me how we are supposed to live in the community. I'm all ears. Because parents of kids with disabilities feel completely isolated. And it's not by our kid's disabilities. It's by the people in the world that refuse to acknowledge that our kids are part of this world."

"Every parent is doing the best they can. We try so hard. And we have to be able to leave our houses."

"I'm scared. It's going to be a long road for us; for all these families. When you can't even go to a special needs park."

Such a thought-provoking post, you can follow her story here.