Autism mom recieves critical letter from anonymous neighbor

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Mother says she was sent shocking letter about her autistic child

MOTHER RECEIVES SCATHING LETTER ABOUT HER CHILD WITH AUTISM


Nice that most of the neighboors seem to be rallying around family. The reporter for the local Fox affilliate did not even pretend to be neutral towered the letter sender.

We sometimes forget that at one time, autism was seen as a moral failing and that there are still traces of that mindset in our culture.

The mindset that any disability is somehow a moral failing is still prevalent all over the world.

Monstrosities like that "neighbor" will always get their comeuppance. If I were him or her, I wouldn't be quite do smug about his or her "normal" children. Things like car accidents, meningitis, juvenile strokes and other life altering, "brain damaging" hardships aren't completely unheard of.

Not to mention plenty of "normal" children end up being not very nice adults. I'll take a society of non-spouse beating, non-sociopath, non-manipulative-social-climbers any day....

Unfortunately, that society would be in an unstable state. Even if any tendency to manipulative social climbing had been both genetically and culturally eradicated, the slightest mutation would sooner or later bring it back, and the first manipulative social climbers would achieve great success, even if they'd be rather clumsy at it, due to finding no competition. Then, the arms race of evolution would start refining the techniques till you got again a vibrant manipulative-social-climbing ecosystem like the current one.

I disagree; IIR there have been many peaceful, non-strict-hierarchy societies in our history. Not in say, European or Chinese history, maybe. But clearly in the history of our species they are documented. Problem is they were often wiped out by violent, selfish neighbors or "more civilized" cultures that "discovered" them.

I'm sorry to say that if a child was constantly making noise that that outside my apartment building I would also find it highly nerve-wracking, even if I knew they couldn't help it. It's bad enough I have to live right across the street from a high school where even keeping the windows shut will not block out the horrible sounds. This morning I awoke to them racing around the school or my building, whooping it up and being teen-aged hormone-poisoned idiots who never think they will get in an accident and kill themselves or some innocent person.

Yesterday I read that most psychologists don't use personality tests on teenagers because according to the results most of them really are psychopaths! Fortunately most of them outgrow it when they turn maybe 30, and the hormone levels that so very ravaged their brains drops. The ones that don't become politicians or join Autism $peaks.

I don't agree with the wording of the letter. But if someone hears screaming all the time from this child, and it's enough to get that person to write a letter, then perhaps this mom needs to think about taking her child inside when he's doing that.

There is no way I would want to hear something like that in my home or backyard. It's the same as loud music or barking dogs. Nobody wants to hear that. We all have the right to enjoy our homes without a bunch of racket. I also don't want to hear screaming babies, or people yelling at their children. When I had a screaming toddler (not autistic, but loud nevertheless) I removed said toddler from the situation, whatever it was. Restaurant, supermarket, backyard, etc.

People need to learn to be considerate of other people, and stop expecting everyone else to "just deal with" the aggravation.

The person who wrote the letter needs to grow up, however. A simple phone call, visit, or a nicely worded letter would have been easy enough, and gotten better results. Calling someone else's child ret*d, and implying that the child is a wild animal or not "normal" is completely inappropriate. I don't care how angry this person was, it's not right.

And what is with everyone posting these kinds of things on Facebook? Every time somebody is angry about something, they post it on Facebook to shame the other person.

I'm personally appalled by the rhetoric of that anonymous neighbour who wrote that letter because it makes me wonder,what's stopping her from escalating attacks and hate speech against me or other people with autism? This is why I campaign so vigorously,to make people more understanding and tolerant of people with autism.

I'd like to know who he/she is so I can sue them for bullying,calling a child with autism 'ret*d' is extremely offensive and I will not put up with people like that getting away with that crap,as they make life harder for all people with autism including me in all aspects of life by spreading negativity and hate against the very people who need help and compassion,not stigma to live their lives to the fullest.Enough said.

People won't tolerate attempts to force them to be tolerant.