Another nasty video about autism on A Current Affair

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Oh what a wonderful idea! Shock the heck out of kids until they become robots who do what they're told. Don't worry about the obvious psychological damage. They'll heal. /sarcasm

I'm not surprised. This is from the same country that, until relatively a short time ago, "treated" mentally ill/disabled people by locking them up in facilities no one would put animals in for fear of getting put in jail.

That makes me feel very sick to my stomach. The ignorant bastards of the world believe that people with autism don't have any feelings. I'd like to see the parents being given shock thearapy for abusing their children.

Disgusting! A Current Affair has shown several negative pieces about autism. I remember seeing something back in 1999 where a child died from some hideous so-called "therapy." The whole thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Horrible. The last time I checked, we are still in the Dark Ages when it comes to
mental health care. This makes me wonder about stuff that goes on in some clinics
that we do not know about. *shudders*

Hey, don't shoot the messenger here. Blame the incompetents who came up with the idea in the first place. You only have to look at R P MacMurphy in Kesey's 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' to see what EST does. And possibly the reason Billy Bibbitt stuttered was the amount of EST he had too. I know it's meant to be fiction, but hey, I don't put it past the American system to do anything. Hey, maybe they could go the whole hog and gas them like Hitler tried with the Jews... Sorry, but that's exactly the measure of cruelty I see there. Autistics have just as much right to function in society as anyone else, and while these kids might have had 'uncontrollable' behaviour, EST isn't the answer, Hell, it doesn't even work on dogs, because those shock collars still make them bark even more. Maybe some other method could be used, but because the parents want a 'quick fix' so they can get on with their lives seems a bit selfish.

There is no excuse for this so-called treatment. No one deserves this, and I hope someone will step up and blow the whistle on these quacks.

That sort of therapy is disturbing. I don't think I'd consider it actual therapy.

To me it's just scaring the person into submission. Feels more like a desperate short term solution than a real answer to the violent behavior.

I see somebody has already posted Video on the Judge Rotenberg Center. I was going to mention them as more or less having pioneered Shock Aversion Therapy with people that have ASD's, but no matter, here is their website.

At one time they used whips to herd cattle. To use a bullwhip correctly takes skilll., practice, and effort. To get around that they invented the cattle prod which anyone can use. Then came shock collars for dogs. It takes effort for someone to get up off thier fat asses and run the dog down and spank them for not minding or herd them back into the yard. To get around that just sit in on the sofa with the TV/stereo remote in one hand and the shock callar remote in the other and zap away. It's easy and since you're not hitting the dog it makes it more tempting to do even for the smallest infractions. This is the progression pathway for how we got to where it's done on kids now. It will get worse from here. Since the govermnet (with the backing of unscrupulous shrinks) condones it that makes it legall. In the minds of some, if it's legal then it's moral since they have no real moral values of their own. Call me a caveman but I think that it's less dehumanizing to administer (and receive) a spanking than that sick electrical shock BS. I've had my share of ass whuppins when I was a kid. Most of them deserved and a few not but what the hell.
Shocking is just too easy to abuse and it's just plain sadistic. For kids and dogs alike
We're on a slippery slope on this, though. It's not about doing what's right, it's all about what's convenient, easy, and legal.

As I said, the bloody things don't work anyway. Friends of mine have a 2 year old Pomeranian, and when they put it on her and had it tight enough for the electrodes to be on the larynx, the dog still barked and whimpered as per normal. matter of fact, the more she barked, the more it went off (the red light was almost constantly on) and the more it went off, the more she barked. Piece of sh*t they thought, and gave up. Now the husband just stands over the dog, shows his teeth and yells at it (which drives his wife nuts). I told them just to toss her into the yard where she can play, but he says she disturbs him even more, even though he is inside. Can't win either way, can you.

I couldn't be bothered to watch the video; how were said autistic individuals behaving before the commencement of the treatment? Not while it was happening, but what led them there; was it mentioned?

haha current affair. that shows the bomb, i especially like the noise it made when the show was starting