Aspies For Freedom

on http://www.rettdevil.com/katiemccarron.html

here's a little excerpt:

"I too am fed up with the comments from "advocacy" spokespersons. How can people pretending to represent the good of children with autism ignore the murder of a beautiful and dear little child.? When I see the lead in line "I don't approve of murder; but�" I just have to buckle my seat belt because I know, here it comes. The advocate goes on to virtually admit it is OK, or understandable because Katie had autism. If these people are "advocates" for people with autism I can't imagine what the "opponents" must be like."

This proves why "The Bridge Comment" is so controversial.

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On what Katie was really like:.... She enjoyed the zoo and because of all of the drills and flashcards she could identify the animals. Which I thought was pretty amazing for such a young child. She was also the only little child in her non-autistic play group that could identify an octagon. My wife and son had a party for her the day they heard that from the teacher.

I'm not surprised at all at these examples of cleverness in a young autistic child, in fact I'm not sure that the flashcard drills were necessary for this kind of skill to develop in an autistic child. Autistic people, including autistic kids, often have good memories for information about things that belong in the same logical category, such as types of aeroplanes, types of animals, types of birds, types of sea shells etc.

Who knows what kinds of original and wondrous abilities might have developed in this beautiful child's mind if her promising life hadn't been brutally stolen from her, and from us all?

http://www.notdeadyet.org/docs/mccarron/...hotos.html

Could we add one as a memorial?

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