There comes a time when I have to ask....

[conuly]

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE SOMETIMES?????

Quick answer for those just joining us: It ain't autism, and it sure as hell ain't cerebral palsy.

Edit: And it's not MS either.

Comments

[sayga.livejournal.com]

yeah. maybe if this was a thousand years ago, when parents might've left a baby in the jungle to die for any number of reasons. but this is TODAY...in the USA...it's scary that some people don't seem to have evolved at all.

[conuly]

Or a few hundred years ago when people passed around stories about changelings in order to justify killing their children who had been "stolen" from them....

[sayga.livejournal.com]

or even cultures who believed twins were evil and would leave them both to die.

what i don't understand is if these parents REALLY can't handle living with and caring for their child, why don't they march up to the police station or psychiatric ward or where ever and say, "damn it, when i say i want to KILL her, i really mean it! take her, quick." it makes me feel like these parents must have something really wrong with them mentally, except i find it hard to believe that all these mentally imbalanced people are parents to autistic children--it's too coincidental.

[conuly]

Well, what you're expected to believe is that caring for a disabled child (or adult) is so very tiring that it's inevitable that one would just snap and kill them.

You're also supposed to believe that being disabled is so bad that a disabled person may well be better off dead.

What I believe is that this is nonsense. Yes, people need support. Yes, lack of support is a problem. But there's no excuse for homicide.