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 Forum: News and Current Events   Topic: NY Times: People with autism fear stigma after Newtown

Posted: 19 Dec 2012, 4:55 pm 

Replies: 62
Views: 10,383


Grrr, just got a request from my kids school asking for their BMI. I know it doesn't help, but I want to ask them if that's so they know what size body bag to get for the next time they allow a child to be ostracized and bullied into desperate evil :cry:

 Forum: News and Current Events   Topic: National Journal - Don't Stigmatize Asperger's 12/16/2012

Posted: 17 Dec 2012, 2:31 pm 

Replies: 3
Views: 1,388


My kids are upset by the news stories identifying Lanza as ASD...even though they seem to believe me when I say that is Not why this happened. They are stigmatized enough, especially my younger ones in mainstream. Idk what to say, heart is heavy with trying to soothe their fears and help them not ca...

 Forum: News and Current Events   Topic: At least one report got it right

Posted: 16 Dec 2012, 3:10 am 

Replies: 9
Views: 2,308


Chronos, thank you. I am perpetually frustrated by NTs who think they can say what I am thinking or what is motivating me based on their limited knowledge of what they deem to be autism traits. I'm not planning on shooting those ppl tho, except maybe some dirty looks.

 Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion   Topic: School shooting in CT

Posted: 15 Dec 2012, 4:25 am 

Replies: 411
Views: 68,514


Me too, hun. Wasn't til my oldest was diagnosed that I had an answer to me.

 Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion   Topic: School shooting in CT

Posted: 15 Dec 2012, 4:03 am 

Replies: 411
Views: 68,514


Btw Bill, I'm from them good ole days when we were just lazy freaks who didn't apply ourselves or work up to our ability too. Just don't understand why it doesn't seem all that much better for my daughter today with an actual diagnosis. Wish I could change school districts... but here's a kick in th...

 Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion   Topic: School shooting in CT

Posted: 15 Dec 2012, 3:27 am 

Replies: 411
Views: 68,514


My oldest is in a program where he is more sheltered. My Aspie daughter is mainstreamed in middle school with evil entitled snobby rich kids in a school district that allows ppl with money to get away with um, well, pretty much anything. My youngest is in his last year of elementary school, mainstre...

 Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion   Topic: School shooting in CT

Posted: 15 Dec 2012, 2:58 am 

Replies: 411
Views: 68,514


My first post here, but I couldn't be silent after another mass shooting with the perpetrator reportedly Aspie. Maybe most of us are not violent, wouldn't resort to violence, abhor violence...but I can remember back to younger days (I'm 45) and the rage and pain I carried from abuse of folks who jus...
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