more bias.
Lauren and Jim are two exemplary New Yorkers, people blessed with talent, smarts, charm and kindness; Jim’s a much-admired anchor for the WB-11 News at Ten, Lauren was a rising star anchoring financial news on CNN for five years. I say “was” because, five years ago, she abandoned her job to care full time for Liam after he was diagnosed with autism.
lots of mothers quit their job when they have children, it's called stay at home mom. this precives that autistic children are a pain to take care of and ruin everyone's life. if you are planning to have kids, autistic or not, you should anticapte having to quit your job to take care of them. if they had cancer, you would problay have to drop your job as well.
and this puts the prescitve on parents that have so much agony that they have to quit doing what they want to do, like children are objects in general and that autism is a terminal illies (both are false btw.)
my mom wanted to have a career, but gave it up before she had children, so that we have the care we really need. so that i was cared for when that time came, and we're all better people for it.
these children aren't objects.
The film consists mainly of interviews with mothers (and scenes of them with their autistic children), mothers whose lives have been utterly transformed. The situation of these mothers is just unrelieved, unrelenting.
it's more like they are putting some of it on themselves, their hatred for their children, and the things they can't do is putting up with their anger. the film is very biased twoards whiny parents (i know that's not all of them) that hate autistics for what the parents had to give up.
i have been wanting to do a video of me and my life and that everyone loves me. if only i had a camera...
it would conter the yucky autism talk.
I could do a piece about how there are some places (like my high school) where people are accepting of aspies, and show me and some other aspies who go here hanging with our friends and enjoying the classes. It would help show that a large part of the problem is NTs being intolerant, not aspies being difficult.
I could show my parents yelling at me, too, so they could see what WE have to put up with, thus countering the Autism Speaks video showing only what THEY put up with.
There's a congressional bill being considered?
they are often constantly, violently—often self-destructively—acting out.
I wonder if that's actually effected from being autistic or not. I'm still a kid, and only act aggressive towards my mother when she's insensitive. Thing is, I find it disturbing having to tell her how she's being so mean. Maybe that's the only truth about violent autistics.
You already postedd your email, can't hurt to do it twice though :smile: