Parents: Would you ever consider doing the unthinkable?

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The video says it all

That woman needs her head examined!
She's got issues.

I hope you are not implying that you think that all parents are like her.

You should have put a title or reference point with the link. This video has made the rounds the past year here and it's been discussed quite a bit.
The movie represents a particular demographic; a wealthy, entitled, bigoted group of women that make money by crying wolf. "Crying wolf" because the movie is filmed and edited omitting their therapists, normal grooming habits, daily ups and downs and not addressing that their region has some of the best access to special ed and special needs resources in the country.
Autism Speaks doesn't provide a proper forum or feedback system so that their actions can be questioned. They only want you to thank them and/or give them money.

Even if what was shown in that movie was true and realistic, there are scenes where that mom is blatantly ignoring/denying her daughter's attempts to show affection and communicate.

Not a chance would I ever do that, that whole video is sickening, and to even know that likely they did film purposely all the negative stuff without focusing on any positive is ignorant.

Very disturbing. As the father of two autistic kids and as an undiagnosed aspie myself, I get upset when I hurt one of their feelings. The child of a mother who would say such a thing needs to be living with someone else. The woman is clearly dangerous and is covering up her "issues" with that bougeois smile.

The rest of the video is here.

http://www.autismspeaks.org/sponsoredev ... ry_day.php

The whole thing is disturbing because all the parents talk about is themselves. I don't mind a video that talks about the hardship autism can cause if it was about how difficult it is for the kids, (then balance it out with what a blessing they are). But instead it is "I can't go to cocktail parties and my life is awful blah blah blah".

It's "autism is painful because what I have to go through", instead of "autism is hard becuase I can see it is hard for my child". They talk about how they are speaking for autistic kids because they don't have a voice. Well they aren't speaking for autistic kids, they are speaking for shallow spoiled yuppie moms who see their own children as a tumor on their all important intended life of no responisbilities and some imaginary disposable income.

They aren't sad because they have to watch their kids go through pain. They are sad because they are being inconvenienced.

In one scene, the NT daughter of the attention whore who wanted to kill her autistic daughter, is sitting on her mothers lap and says, "I wish I didn't have an autistic sister".

I wouldn't have been bothered if she had said "I wish my sister wasn't autistic". But she was taught by her psycho b***h mom that it would be better if her sister herself didn't exist. Of course, the difference between autism and lets say cancer, is that Autism IS who you are. So by talking about how terrible autism is, you are talking about how terrible your own child is.

This video makes me very angry and I intend to email this group to tell them what I think.

sick

I don't think that girl is even autistic, honestly.

As a documentary filmmaker myself, I can understand the temptation to put only the sensational into your representation, simply because it's easier to make that into entertaining viewing. Mind you, the operative word is "easier". It is far more difficult to capture the mundane, and moreover, difficult to make it into palatable viewing, there are few masters at this herculanean task, like Woody Allen, Rick Linklater, DA Pennebaker, Robert Altman. I approach a film with exactly that approach, trying to find the beauty of mundane, and since AS has entered my life by way of my daughter, plan on making a feature length documentary about the topic - including BOTH "warts and sunshine" - I think, or at least hope, it will be closer to the movie many of you are looking for.

I'll put the mom in her car and push it off the George Washington Bridge

With a young child, you can't go to cocktail parties, regardless of the brain structure of said child.

I think you have to remember that these things are edited.
in addition, some of these moms are exhausted and may get little support. So they say their innermost feelings. At least they are attempting to take care of of very difficult children.

Edited or not if I made a comment about driving my kids off the GWB in public I do believe someone would call the cops at least