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This one isn't so recent, it's an update on the Katie McCarron case.
And here is a recent post somebody made with four articles (!) about people harming the autistic kids in their care. One of the links is in the comments.
This is all pretty recent, too. Bad things do seem to clump together, although sometimes I suspect it's more that not all stories get the same attention.
And here is a recent post somebody made with four articles (!) about people harming the autistic kids in their care. One of the links is in the comments.
This is all pretty recent, too. Bad things do seem to clump together, although sometimes I suspect it's more that not all stories get the same attention.
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Date: 2007-06-09 06:50 am (UTC)I keep hearing horror stories from other states, and then read from parents who seem to be so uneducated on their own children, and it makes my heart pound. I don't think they are going to KILL their children but inside I go 'why why why'.
This is kind of why I want to be a family practice NP -- a pediatric sort only sees one side, my real hope is to catch families in crisis, or rather, pre-crisis.
Aren't kids with ANY disability, not just autism, more likely to be abused, killed, or in foster care? If what I remember is true, that's what I want to reverse. But it's going to take a zillion years of school. :/
I also was somewhat amused the other day that when I found out from my respite care worker that there were respite care worker openings, that I wanted to apply. Could you imagine if I spent more hours giving respite than getting? :D
Rambing because I am exhausted but a truck outside has a thing going beep beep beep and I can't sleep with it.
Oh yes, are these stories getting attention because the kids are autistic and sadly they are just one in a whole heap of abuse and death? :(
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Date: 2007-06-09 07:14 am (UTC)Mmmm. I'm thinking yes and no. I know I wouldn't be linking to them if they weren't autistic - this sort of thing does happen all the time, we all know it. But in the long run, I think disabled (not just autistic) kids get about the same press as non-disabled kids when they're harmed.
However, the sort of press they get is different. When it's a disabled kid, you so often hear people excusing it - the parents were just "overwhelmed", or the kid was "suffering". And sometimes that might be true, I guess - but it's also possible for parents of nondisabled kids to be overwhelmed, and yet, nobody would ever talk about that seriously as a justifiable reason for them to snap and injure their children.
And I've got a rant on the subject, and 3am isn't the time for it :)
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Date: 2007-06-09 07:30 am (UTC)Or I may knock her and F's heads together.
The (officially) disabled kid is stressful but not in ways that fill me with anger and stress. I will, when he tugs on me for the millionth time, do this guitarist from the Who arm rotation thing. It's more a visual LEAVE MOMMY ALONE NOW PLEASE K THX than anything.
But yeah you are right, they won't say the mother of nondisabled kids are overwhelmed, although they very well could be. Plus chances are the mom of a nondisabled kid has LESS resouces to deal with the stress. Mom of disabled kids SHOULD have more resources but it is crazy how little information they are given, especially by doctors. It was the clinic in Iowa City that FILLED OUT PAPERS FOR ME and marked off where to sign to get the ball rolling on ALL the support services. But for the people who just go to a pediatrician or a shrink of some sort, doctors know crap about those things. "Take this to school and see if you can get an IEP" the end.
The kid was suffering is NEVER acceptable. I mean none of it is, but the overwhelmed thing I can see where people make that interpretation. Because parenting is overwhelming (for any child). If your child is TRULY suffering, you find a non fatal way to stop it. I know people don't always get the education and information and help, but at what point can a human being make that sort of judgment about suffering? Where death is an IMPROVEMENT? Especially with (classical)autism. Because really how the hell do you know? For sure?
I should put on the washer and dryer and just try to sleep. Stupid neighbors.
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Date: 2007-06-09 06:50 am (UTC)I keep hearing horror stories from other states, and then read from parents who seem to be so uneducated on their own children, and it makes my heart pound. I don't think they are going to KILL their children but inside I go 'why why why'.
This is kind of why I want to be a family practice NP -- a pediatric sort only sees one side, my real hope is to catch families in crisis, or rather, pre-crisis.
Aren't kids with ANY disability, not just autism, more likely to be abused, killed, or in foster care? If what I remember is true, that's what I want to reverse. But it's going to take a zillion years of school. :/
I also was somewhat amused the other day that when I found out from my respite care worker that there were respite care worker openings, that I wanted to apply. Could you imagine if I spent more hours giving respite than getting? :D
Rambing because I am exhausted but a truck outside has a thing going beep beep beep and I can't sleep with it.
Oh yes, are these stories getting attention because the kids are autistic and sadly they are just one in a whole heap of abuse and death? :(
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Date: 2007-06-09 07:14 am (UTC)Mmmm. I'm thinking yes and no. I know I wouldn't be linking to them if they weren't autistic - this sort of thing does happen all the time, we all know it. But in the long run, I think disabled (not just autistic) kids get about the same press as non-disabled kids when they're harmed.
However, the sort of press they get is different. When it's a disabled kid, you so often hear people excusing it - the parents were just "overwhelmed", or the kid was "suffering". And sometimes that might be true, I guess - but it's also possible for parents of nondisabled kids to be overwhelmed, and yet, nobody would ever talk about that seriously as a justifiable reason for them to snap and injure their children.
And I've got a rant on the subject, and 3am isn't the time for it :)
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Date: 2007-06-09 07:30 am (UTC)Or I may knock her and F's heads together.
The (officially) disabled kid is stressful but not in ways that fill me with anger and stress. I will, when he tugs on me for the millionth time, do this guitarist from the Who arm rotation thing. It's more a visual LEAVE MOMMY ALONE NOW PLEASE K THX than anything.
But yeah you are right, they won't say the mother of nondisabled kids are overwhelmed, although they very well could be. Plus chances are the mom of a nondisabled kid has LESS resouces to deal with the stress. Mom of disabled kids SHOULD have more resources but it is crazy how little information they are given, especially by doctors. It was the clinic in Iowa City that FILLED OUT PAPERS FOR ME and marked off where to sign to get the ball rolling on ALL the support services. But for the people who just go to a pediatrician or a shrink of some sort, doctors know crap about those things. "Take this to school and see if you can get an IEP" the end.
The kid was suffering is NEVER acceptable. I mean none of it is, but the overwhelmed thing I can see where people make that interpretation. Because parenting is overwhelming (for any child). If your child is TRULY suffering, you find a non fatal way to stop it. I know people don't always get the education and information and help, but at what point can a human being make that sort of judgment about suffering? Where death is an IMPROVEMENT? Especially with (classical)autism. Because really how the hell do you know? For sure?
I should put on the washer and dryer and just try to sleep. Stupid neighbors.