Aspies For Freedom

Really, what is this all about?  The original post does not sound like the wilky I remember--from earlier this year--at all.

Anyhow, wilky, this website is about acceptance and tolerance and your "now uncensored view" has no place here.

I find the fact that you were deceiving us all along a little bit disturbing.

He's saying you are being so extremely logical that you are blind to the effect your words are having on other members.

Learn some decorum.

Well, I think it is offensive that you refer to unborn children as "blobs of tissue" and "non persons". It is now well known that even foetuses at 6 weeks gestation have recognisably human hands and feet with fingers and toes. If you do a DNA test on even a two-cell embryo, you would find HUMAN DNA, not dog dna or cat dna or monkey dna or fish dna.

I find the idea of curing us by exterminating more of us from being born very objectionable indeed.

I also don't know Wilky well but can't see what she hoped to achieve by her original post. If she cared to elaborate just what was so hard about having a LFA child, then we would find it easier to understand just what they have to cope with.

I've been there! It's a way to get through the day. This was the case when I got my tinnitus 10 years ago. Horrible! How I chased and chased, day by day, clinging to the hope of a cure.

I haven't looked at the John Best site. Maybe it's all about anger management...

It just seemed like a very ill-advised thread and why is she doing it now when the big kerfuffle was a couple of months ago? It annoys me that this silliness has started all over again.

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But...

No I won't say anything lol

The original comment that started this whole thing off was inane and was only posted four days ago. It annoys me that parents are given false hopes of "cures" that will never happen.

It also irritates me no end that Gareth and Amy were attacked for providing a valuable service simply because they don't agree with the aims and methods of "Curebie" organisations such as CAN and DAN.

Rossco, I'd read Foresam's blog about his boy being severely constipated. He probably should have taken him to the doctor but failing that, he could have got him a stool softener from the chemist eg. Agarol. Ironically, the chelation "cured" the constipation.

I can see how it would be awful to have a child who constantly hurts themselves and sadly, I don't know any easy solutions. Sedating the child might help but sedatives do have side effects, including constipation. Restraining them from hitting and biting themselves could be seen by some as child cruelty. It would be so much worse if the child was non-verbal.

But what angers me about organisations like CAN is they aren't trying to find out why autistic kids hurt themselves; they are too busy putting the money into pre-natal research which could easily lead us to the current situation with Down's syndrome, where the cure apparently is to wipe out the foetuses before they are born.

Lucie1, nobody's asking you to be the peacemaker and that's a role you've taken upon yourself. If it's stressing you, it would be best not to worry about intervening in arguments and just let them play out by themselves (as they always do eventually).

Ha, don't I know it! Wilky's parthian shot at Gareth and Amy and us was very ill-conceived but at least has sparked some relevant debate.

I still feel like a child in an adult's body and it has taken years to even reach the level of emotional functioning of a young teenager.

Yes Chris is a really good guy. Smart!!!!!!!! He thinks deeply - and he is very gentle. I like him heaps. My favourite online guy.

anyway - Chris, you asked about  kitty somewhere in this forum - my kitty is cheeky and lovely. We are learing to love him, he's precious. I will try and get a photo for you. Does you cat cope okay when you leave him on his own? We are wondering if we should get another cat  to keep kitty company when we are at work - or out and about. If we are to get another kitty we will need to do it soon.
sidenote: my asthma has been  so much worse lately, I don't know if it's kitty, seasonal or hormonal.

Now, if only Chris could drop the doom and gloom about religion, things would be even better still. I'm sure in real life, he is a gentle person on the whole. After all, he has a cat, and that usually says good things about a person.