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conulyArticle about parents of aspie kids being accused of abuse
Choice quotes:
She and her husband Michael had removed their sons Ben, 15, and Sam, 10, from their schools after they fell prey to severe bullying.
This, we all know, is common with autistic/aspie kids. Common with far too many kids, really. It's the bullies who should be taken out of the schools, but you know nobody would go for that...
"He said: 'Right you are on the at risk register because your parents are abusing you emotionally and physically'," said Ben.
So, they just TELL a kid this? They don't even say "we think that" or "we have reason to believe that" first? So even if the parents are vindicated, this idea is stuck on them!
"The next words out of his mouth were: 'it concerns me you are not into sport and fashion like normal children of your age'."
*cracks up*
Because the kid is, I believe, normal for most autistics, he must be abused? God, base ignorance!
Besides, if he HAD been interested in sports and fashions, people would get upset at that, say he wasn't concentrating on important issues. And he wouldn't be. This is the first I've ever heard that people want children to be shallow.
*grumbles loudly*
Choice quotes:
She and her husband Michael had removed their sons Ben, 15, and Sam, 10, from their schools after they fell prey to severe bullying.
This, we all know, is common with autistic/aspie kids. Common with far too many kids, really. It's the bullies who should be taken out of the schools, but you know nobody would go for that...
"He said: 'Right you are on the at risk register because your parents are abusing you emotionally and physically'," said Ben.
So, they just TELL a kid this? They don't even say "we think that" or "we have reason to believe that" first? So even if the parents are vindicated, this idea is stuck on them!
"The next words out of his mouth were: 'it concerns me you are not into sport and fashion like normal children of your age'."
*cracks up*
Because the kid is, I believe, normal for most autistics, he must be abused? God, base ignorance!
Besides, if he HAD been interested in sports and fashions, people would get upset at that, say he wasn't concentrating on important issues. And he wouldn't be. This is the first I've ever heard that people want children to be shallow.
*grumbles loudly*
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Date: 2004-09-26 05:33 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-09-26 05:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-26 05:44 pm (UTC)You remain support goddess, though, I just don't feel quite so stupid now.
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Date: 2004-09-26 05:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-26 05:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-26 05:53 pm (UTC)http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=343494
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Date: 2004-09-26 06:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-27 12:44 pm (UTC)Nobody gets what they need, do they?
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Date: 2004-09-26 06:41 pm (UTC)I was never into "sport and fashion" and I'm not even autistic. (Well, possibly slightly. But I'm pretty sure I'm well within the "normal" range.) Have my parents been abusing me? Why wasn't I told?!?
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Date: 2004-09-26 08:08 pm (UTC)And why the hell aren't adults given the same super strict guidelines to normality? Or are people not allowed to be different until they reach eighteen?
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Date: 2004-09-27 12:45 pm (UTC)If we like you, and your parents, you're normal.
And why the hell aren't adults given the same super strict guidelines to normality? Or are people not allowed to be different until they reach eighteen?
1. Because they're ADULTS!
2. They're not allowed to be different then, either, but there's not much that can be done about it.
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Date: 2004-09-28 05:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-26 08:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-26 09:28 pm (UTC)Unfortunately the correct resoponce is
TO be fucking leavable.
Reckon those socal workers come from the same school of thaught as the minsinformed idiots who kept screwing up my childhood came from.
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Date: 2004-09-28 05:39 pm (UTC)Amen. That's messed up. Not that sports, or even neccesarily fashion, are a bad thing, but what kind of evidence of child abuse is that?!
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Date: 2004-09-26 05:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-26 05:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-26 05:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-26 05:44 pm (UTC)You remain support goddess, though, I just don't feel quite so stupid now.
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Date: 2004-09-26 05:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-26 05:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-26 05:53 pm (UTC)http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=343494
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Date: 2004-09-26 06:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-27 12:44 pm (UTC)Nobody gets what they need, do they?
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Date: 2004-09-26 06:41 pm (UTC)I was never into "sport and fashion" and I'm not even autistic. (Well, possibly slightly. But I'm pretty sure I'm well within the "normal" range.) Have my parents been abusing me? Why wasn't I told?!?
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Date: 2004-09-26 08:08 pm (UTC)And why the hell aren't adults given the same super strict guidelines to normality? Or are people not allowed to be different until they reach eighteen?
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Date: 2004-09-27 12:45 pm (UTC)If we like you, and your parents, you're normal.
And why the hell aren't adults given the same super strict guidelines to normality? Or are people not allowed to be different until they reach eighteen?
1. Because they're ADULTS!
2. They're not allowed to be different then, either, but there's not much that can be done about it.
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Date: 2004-09-28 05:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-26 08:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-26 09:28 pm (UTC)Unfortunately the correct resoponce is
TO be fucking leavable.
Reckon those socal workers come from the same school of thaught as the minsinformed idiots who kept screwing up my childhood came from.
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Date: 2004-09-28 05:39 pm (UTC)Amen. That's messed up. Not that sports, or even neccesarily fashion, are a bad thing, but what kind of evidence of child abuse is that?!