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It seems no wonder that right wing talker Michael Savage’s last name is, well, “Savage” after reading what he said about autism on his radio show. I’ll list the words he uses to refer to autism:
moron, putz, idiot, fool, dummy, a girl, losers, beaten men
More of Savage’s savagery is quoted on Left Brain/Right Brain.
If […]
A Georgia mother and her daughters were kicked out of a Jackson restaurant because one daughter, 4-year-old Alyssa, who is autistic, was crying. Another customer—-Jackson Police Chief Dennis Rushton, it turned out—-said that her crying was “‘beginning to make [his] head hurt.’”
Excluded, again.
Tags: asd, asperger, autism, autism blog, buckhead, developmental disability, Family, father, georgia, mothering […]
A 12-year-old autistic boy, Ben Haslam will be without a school by the end of the week and could be taken into care—into custody—by the Local Education Authority (LEA) in Bedfordshire, UK. The Haslams tried to get Ben into one school; the LEA protested; the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal (SENDIST) ruled in […]
“What Tim eventually said….was that he didn’t want to go to school because he thought the school was trying to kill him.”
John Miller, a podiatrist in Allegany, N.Y, says this about his 12-year-old son, who has Asperger Syndrome, and who was, according to a July 15th New York Times article, held down prone on the […]
While traveling from Detroit to Seattle on Southwest Airlines, a mother with four children, one who has autism and another who has cerebral palsy, and her five-month pregnant sister were stranded in Phoenix after being told they were “too disruptive” to continue on a connecting flight to Seattle. Wendy Slaughter acknowledged that her children were […]
She Knows has a list of 11 Pro-Autism products; as some of these bear the light blue puzzle piece logo of a certain large autism organization that recently threatened an autistic t-shirt maker with legal action, I guess the “pro-autism-ness” of the She Knows products is open to a bit of debate.
Especially around the time […]
Something that has been particularly bothering me about 2-year-old Jarret Farrell and his mother being removed from an American Eagle airplane earlier this week is (according to news reports) a flight attendant repeatedly tugging on the toddler’s seatbelt to tighten it, while “reprimanding and yelling.” It’s this kind of physical—excessively physical—force that is too often […]
The response to 2 year old Jarret Farrell and his mother, Janice Farrell, being removed from an American Eagle flight at the Raleigh-Durham (NC) because of his behavior—-
“The child had been crying and screaming uncontrollably, to the point where the child’s well being was in question,” American Airlines, the parent company of American Eagle, said […]
Yesterday, Carol Race took the stand at a hearing in Long Prairie, Minnesota, over the restraining order filed against her 13-year-old son, Adam Race, by the Church of St. Joseph in Bertha. From WDAY.com:
[Carol Race] represented herself at Tuesday’s hearing, and questioned the Reverend Daniel Walz for about 30 minutes.
Walz acknowledged that he did […]
Autreat 2008 began yesterday and runs until this Friday: It’s run by the Autism Network International and is a “retreat-style conference run by autistic people, for autistic people and our friends” that “focuses on positive living with autism, NOT on causes, cures, or ways to make us more normal.”
Some of the sessions will be transcribed […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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