bronx mom killed her son

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crim ... slays.html

I look forward to the day, that autistic children, are no longer killed, by the witches, who give them life.

I feel sorry for the mother in this case. She didn't just kill her child to be rid of him. She took her own life. It gives me the impression that she couldn't handle it anymore and was not capable of seeing that someone else would care for him, so she took his life too.

I hope I don't get flamed over this, but it really hits home for me. I am on the spectrum and so is my son. We're very isolated and it's very depressing. Some days I don't want to get out of bed. I just keep hoping we can move closer to my family who loves and supports us tremendously. Until then I cling to a few rays of light and wait for tomorrow.

What disturbs me most is that this article is so forgiving of this woman who took her own son's life. The entire article seems to be suggesting that we sympathize with a person who committed murder, and that the action was justified by the difficulties created by the child's autism. The article says nearly nothing about the victim of this crime, except that he was autistic, as though that wipes away the possibility that he had friends, interests, or projects that enriched his life. Moreover, the crime was premeditated. At any point the child's mother could have turned him over to care by the state or a family member and gone into treatment for her depression. Instead, she engaged in a carefully organized execution of herself and her son.

Additionally, this article failed to mention anything about the possibility of improved services that could have helped save this mother and child's lives. Vast amounts of money are going into research into the causes of autism and the holy grail of a cure, while services for people with disabilities are underfunded across the board. These priorities are backwards. Articles like this reinforce this backwards thinking by portraying autism as a terrifying illness that justifies murder-suicide. It blames the difficulties the mother faced squarely on the child, and not on a lack of public understanding and reasonable services.

Besides Obama, this makes me sick. Us autistic folk are not inferior. We never were and never will be. Please, stop killing peopole just because they have autism. It's not a disease for crying out loud.

That's sad. She could have given full custody to the boy's father.