John Travolta finally acknoweledges His son's autism

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11 Jun 2009, 9:46 pm

If someone could find an article that would be great. John Travolta has finally gone against scientology and admitted his son had Autism.

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11 Jun 2009, 9:58 pm

Here's a short one:

http://gawker.com/5286990/travolta-defying-scientology-acknowledged-sons-autism

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John Travolta, Defying Scientology, Acknowledged Son's Autism
By John Cook, 10:08 AM on Thu Jun 11 2009, 28,922 views (Edit post, Set to draft, Slurp)

According to a Bahamian police report taken in February after his son Jett's death last year, Travolta acknowledged in his own words that "Jett suffered from a seizure disorder and was autistic." That's a big no-no in Scientology.

The report was obtained by the National Enquirer. Travolta's use of the term "autistic" seems to be a break from church doctrine, which teaches that pyschiatric diagnoses are fake ailments invented by Nazi psychiatrists so they can give people drugs to keep them from realizing their true potential of controlling the physical world with their minds.

Prior to Jett's death, his mother Kelly Preston attributed his problems to a rare disorder called Kawasaki disease and to "environmental toxins" from carpet-cleaners. She claimed that a Scientological detoxification regime had helped to ease his symptoms.

After Jett's death, Scientology representatives denied that the church has taken a stance on autism, saying, "It's medicine. The church deals with the spirit. If people have a medical problem or a physical ailment, they go to a doctor. It's church policy that they do so and they get that addressed." But autism is a psychiatric disorder described in DSM-IV, psychiatry's diagnostic bible. While a case could be made that Travolta was only using the term generally, to describe a disorder with physical roots that he thought could be explained, Scientology-style, by toxins, it's certainly unusual for a high-profile representative of the church to use the word.

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12 Jun 2009, 2:47 am

Perhaps the tragic death of his son is causing Mr. Travolta to have some second thoughts about his so-called "religion."

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12 Jun 2009, 8:18 am

Or, perhaps based on the growing body of scientifically verifiable physiological hard evidence, Scientology is beginning to modify it's definitions... a physically different brain structure can be demonstrated, thereby resulting in medical conditions that have psychological manifestations.

It might be a very positive sign... one can only hope.

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12 Jun 2009, 3:30 pm

i for one am glad he finally admitted it, mayb he'll help out with other autism organizations all over the world now, we can only hope.

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12 Jun 2009, 3:48 pm

shame the kid had to die first though

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12 Jun 2009, 4:30 pm

anna-banana wrote:

shame the kid had to die first though

Sometimes it takes extremes to get someone to open their eyes

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13 Jun 2009, 10:17 pm

Well, he acknowledged it to the police, forensics and all....

Admitting it openly is another matter, as it's agreeing to the evil psychiatry, which was created by the evil minions of Xenu.

To add: he died from a seizure*, and I'm sure he was on medication for such; fall over and hit your head and you're dead. Could have been status epilepticus, which is a common cause of death for people with autism; best to have Diazepam/Lorazepam on standby if your autistic child/adult has seizures in case of this happening.

*Not made by Xenu.

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14 Jun 2009, 12:21 am

stole my words I was going to say shame he's dead to understand I am living with my mum who strugge that I am autistic

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14 Jun 2009, 12:38 am

dougn wrote:

Perhaps the tragic death of his son is causing Mr. Travolta to have some second thoughts about his so-called "religion."

Scientology is no more or no less a religion that any of the other ones. They are all equally ridiculous. Scientology is just not as socially acceptable as the older religions. At least not yet. Who knows what may become of it in 1000 years!

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14 Jun 2009, 12:45 am

religion is nothing but a way to determine controlover he masses it is crul an narrow inded the opposite of what the world should be today. Truly an arciate system that only the truly free wlled real8ise that is simly a delusion. I truly pity those whoare devout as once they die on thei deat bed they will realise their lifehas no point at all jut they followe an imaginary being, and they say aspies live in an imaginary world haha I think the devout dI culd logically worship harry potter and call that a religion or worship a pillow

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