I can't help but take it personally.

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When someone says something horrifically close minded and incorrect about Autism it grates my nerves to no end. I can't help but take it personally. I can't help but feel bad for these people's kids. "it is EXACTLY like the lights go out. They stop talking, stop interact, stop smiling, stop LIVING in THIS world........I would say their lights went out." THE LIGHTS DIDN'T GO OUT, YOU JUST CAN'T ACCEPT THAT YOU HAVE NO CLUE HOW TO OPEN THE CURTAINS AND YOU'RE TOO WRAPPED UP IN TRYING TO MAKE AN EXCEPTIONAL PERSON MEDIOCRE TO EVEN ATTEMPT TO FIGURE IT OUT! I hate this BS. I hate when people act like Autism is the worst thing in the world. How many studies have to be published saying that there is no link between autism and vaccination before people accept the fact that YOUR KID WAS BORN THAT WAY- IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD! "Both my kids when they were younger got immunizations and its like the light went off in them............years later they received their autism DX. Some dont believe and I'm fine with that but all I know is I saw their spirits leave, the happy chatty fun child was gone!" No your child wasn't gone. I'm sorry your kid has regressive autism... what i'm even more sorry for is the fact that you refer to them as being spirit-less emotion-less disapointments.

I hate this type of crap, I hate it... and it takes every fiber of my being not to rip this person a new @sshole. I'm sure it's tough being a parent, i'm sure it's tough being a parent to a child with autism... i'm really sure that it's really tough to be a kid who's treated like damaged goods who nobody understands and who nobody attempts to understand. Who's forced to fit into some mold of normality even though it makes no sense.

Yeah, kudos (if that's the right expression).

The phrase "empty husk" used to refer to autistic children makes me some combination of angry, crazy, amused, and depressed.

At least you can mark off a few squares on the bingo card:

[img][800:1351]http://www.autistics.org/library/bingo/card-01.jpg[/img]

Thanks guys.

I got into it with someone on a forum for my local community. It really bothered me because no matter how many times I pointed out to the person that what they were saying and implying was offensive the more they attacked me. I just don't understand how someone can be so unaccepting of something, especailly when it's part of who their own child is. The entire thing started because someone mentioned vaccinations, and I realize that there is a wide spread concern regarding vaccinations, which is fine. The reasonable thing to do is space out the vaccinations or wait... make an informed choiced not one base on fear. But not vaccinating a child because you're afraid that it will "give them autism" one makes no sense from a scientific stand point, and two puts the entire community at risk. On top of that it's offensive because it implies that someone possibly being killed from a preventable disease is better than your kid having Autism. Measles, mumps, rubella, hep c, pertussis, are all potentially fatal, Autism isn't. Vaccinations are more about public heath than private health.

I don't know, there's no point in arguing with idiots I guess. Either way thanks guys, it's good to know there are people out there who understand. Oh and that bingo card made me laugh, thanks!