She means well... she means well...

And with all that meaning well, can somebody please respond to this letter with an intelligent critique of person-first language?

Though I do agree, the autism was completely unnecessary for the headline.

(Incidentally, that makes, what, four autistic children-or-teens dying within a month and a half? At least this one wasn't intentionally murdered by the people who ought to have been caring for him, not that I can see.)

I just had a thought....

You know how certain people send their kids (or chose themselves to go) to programs to make them stop being gay? Mostly religious folk, right?

And I suppose there may be an overlap between this group and groups that dislike fantasy on general principles....

So... do you think, in Harry Potter's world, there are groups for "recovering wizards and witches"? I bet somebody's already written a fic on it....

(On a side note, yesterday I read one where we discover that after Harry killed Voldie the first time, the wizarding world slowly got into the groove again and had a baby-boom - so instead of 10 kids per house per year, we now have 25 or so. Harry's feelings of guilt over saddling his friends with dealing with so many first years were just about the only things I liked about it, but it was a good point, have to admit.)

Oh dear....

This is so maudlin, I'm torn between horror and hysteria. On siblings - Living with Autism! Dunh dunh DAHHHH!

In other news, Karen McCarron has an injunction against her which is preventing her from being released on bail. They're worried she may flee the country, to her relatives in Germany and Argentina.