Aspies For Freedom

She's so uptight! Is that honestly the normal reaction? I mean, she already knows her son is HF, so why is she all paranoid?

Well if anyone wants to contact the creator of the strip and give her comments, here is the email they provided on the website I posted about -> clearaguaazul@yahoo.com

I don't think it's degrading at all, except to overractive parents. They're hyper-reacting, and people *do* do this. I think it's bring the absuridity of parental behavoir to such a diagnosis to the forefront.

I'd wait until the end of the story arc to get pissy, myself. Oftentimes, offensive things are presented and mocked, and I think that'll be the case here.

I still don't see the big deal here. I see it making fun of parents overreacting more than anything else.

Blackjack, it's just plain not funny.  I'm old enough to be of the generation where autistic children were routinely dumped in institutions because their existence was considered to be such a horrible thing.  I could have been one of them "but for the grace of God."  Being undiagnosed in those days was like being a black person passing for white, or a Jew who barely escaped being put on the cattle car to the death camps.

So I find jokes about the tragedy of autistic children's existence to be as offensive as an Auschwitz joke to a Jew.

I sent the author a link to Frank Klein's Autistic Advocacy site.  Maybe it will help her to understand how insensitive she's being.

The big danger here is that some people won't understand it's a joke and might copy what the characters say they want to do. In fact, some parents have murdered their autistic children to "save" them from the misery of life with autism.

I also wonder if there have been any further developments with this comic strip or if anyone else has started one that gives a positive view of autism.