*sputters incoherantly*

[conuly]

You have got to read this.

But a committee of teachers, counselors and administrators at the school met privately Tuesday and ruled against the father’s theory, Cobb County school spokesman Jay Dillon said. The committee said there was never an official diagnosis.

The girl’s father said he disagreed with the ruling but expected it. If staff at the school agreed that Asperger’s syndrome caused the girl’s actions, then they would have admitted they could have prevented it by placing her in a special environment, the father said.

It could have been prevented by putting her in a special environment? Well, maybe. It also could have been prevented by her being taught right from wrong! (This is, of course, assuming that she knew the snacks were poisoned. If she hadn't, all the special environments in the world wouldn't've helped). I mean, seriously, the girl's not in a "special environment" now. That means she's at least clever enough to last in the oh-so-rigorous public school system. Which means she's smart enough to memorize "poisoning people is bad" and to live by that rule. I live it every day.

Oh, I saw two cars with that autism puzzle ribbon today. By god, that thing is ugly. And at an angle. Why was it at an angle? *shrugs*

Comments

[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

Hey Con, d'ya think you could get on AIM for like two seconds?

[conuly]

I'm doing serious homework now.

[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

Okay, well at some point we need to do some serious scheduling followed by some serious using of my mom's credit card for airfare-ing.

[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

Sorry if that sounded bitchy - I definitely didn't intend it to. I'm overly stressed. Blech. Sorry Con.

[cumaeansibyl.livejournal.com]

Besides, as I understand it, Asperger's != special-ed kid. Why would she need to be in special-ed unless she were learning-disabled as well? (Putting a kid of normal intelligence in a special-ed system, Asperger's notwithstanding, is a death sentence for the brain.)

[conuly]

Special accomodations != special ed, and special ed != slow class. There's special ed for kids with behaviour problems, special ed for kids with physical problems, resource rooms for kids with learning disabilities and, finally, special ed for mentally challenged kids. Or, she could've gotten an aide or somesuch arrangement - which, again, is not the same as being in a separate class.

[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

I wanted to say something to this effect but was unable to do so as eloquently and gave up.

But yeah, I second this. :P

[cumaeansibyl.livejournal.com]

Thing is, at my school they were all put in the same two or three classrooms. And my school, while not especially large, had a good deal of money. Special ed programs are cut so drastically these days (we need new football uniforms) that, while you're absolutely right about how it ought to work, the reality is usually different.

[conuly]

That's the way it works in NYC. It's not how it ought to work here, it's how it does work.

Well, of course, work is a relative term :)

[ruthanolis.livejournal.com]

Mental illness is a great scape goat for almost anything. I'm somewhat surprised that you find it so hard to believe that this sort of thing happens. I would bet my wooden leg that it happens more often than the news media reports.

And really, the use of the word 'got' there is soo not required. ;)

[adiva_calandia]

The girl’s—both 13 -- face charges including . . . .

I think I don't know enough about the topic to be annoyed about anything but bad grammar. Sorry.

What does the autism ribbon look like? I've seen AIDS ribbons, breast cancer ribbons, Support Our Troops ribbons, POW ribbons. . . Never an autism ribbon, though.

[conuly]

Here's the image

Because I'm so nice, I'll link to Oddizm's version as well, which is all pretty and all.

[adiva_calandia]

Yes, you are so nice! I like the mobius strip on the sweatshirt.

[ladytalon.livejournal.com]

A lot of ribbons are put at angles now. Every day I see yellow ribbons, especially, on cars skewed at an angle. I think it's for one of three reasons: Vertically, it doesn't fit on the panel; oddly, someone thinks it should be tilted so the text is horizontal; moronically, someone saw it tilted and thought they should have theirs tilted too. I see them tilted so much that I first think "fish" and then "ribbon."

It's been irritating me lately. >.>

[dkmnow.livejournal.com]

"I am not a pucking fuzzle!"

But I AM a criminal. I mean, I've been diagnosed with Asperger's, right? And people with Asperger's are all criminals. It's true. I know, 'cause I sawr it on the teevee.

grumblegrumble...

[ex-miut911.livejournal.com]

Wow. I never realised that as an autistic, I should naturally have urges to poison people. They must have forgotten to add that to the diagnostic criteria. My cooking is bad, yes, but to the best of my knowledge not dangerous.

Seriously, sarcasm aside, I cannot find the logic in this article. I am trying to work out why these people seem to believe that being on the autistic spectrum is connected to cooking a cake with bleach in it, but hard as I try, I can't.

[staircase-wit.livejournal.com]

some people ought to be poisoned, though.

[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

Hey Con, d'ya think you could get on AIM for like two seconds?

[conuly]

I'm doing serious homework now.

[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

Okay, well at some point we need to do some serious scheduling followed by some serious using of my mom's credit card for airfare-ing.

[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

Sorry if that sounded bitchy - I definitely didn't intend it to. I'm overly stressed. Blech. Sorry Con.

[cumaeansibyl.livejournal.com]

Besides, as I understand it, Asperger's != special-ed kid. Why would she need to be in special-ed unless she were learning-disabled as well? (Putting a kid of normal intelligence in a special-ed system, Asperger's notwithstanding, is a death sentence for the brain.)

[conuly]

Special accomodations != special ed, and special ed != slow class. There's special ed for kids with behaviour problems, special ed for kids with physical problems, resource rooms for kids with learning disabilities and, finally, special ed for mentally challenged kids. Or, she could've gotten an aide or somesuch arrangement - which, again, is not the same as being in a separate class.

[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

I wanted to say something to this effect but was unable to do so as eloquently and gave up.

But yeah, I second this. :P

[cumaeansibyl.livejournal.com]

Thing is, at my school they were all put in the same two or three classrooms. And my school, while not especially large, had a good deal of money. Special ed programs are cut so drastically these days (we need new football uniforms) that, while you're absolutely right about how it ought to work, the reality is usually different.

[conuly]

That's the way it works in NYC. It's not how it ought to work here, it's how it does work.

Well, of course, work is a relative term :)

[ruthanolis.livejournal.com]

Mental illness is a great scape goat for almost anything. I'm somewhat surprised that you find it so hard to believe that this sort of thing happens. I would bet my wooden leg that it happens more often than the news media reports.

And really, the use of the word 'got' there is soo not required. ;)

[adiva_calandia]

The girl’s—both 13 -- face charges including . . . .

I think I don't know enough about the topic to be annoyed about anything but bad grammar. Sorry.

What does the autism ribbon look like? I've seen AIDS ribbons, breast cancer ribbons, Support Our Troops ribbons, POW ribbons. . . Never an autism ribbon, though.

[conuly]

Here's the image

Because I'm so nice, I'll link to Oddizm's version as well, which is all pretty and all.

[adiva_calandia]

Yes, you are so nice! I like the mobius strip on the sweatshirt.

[ladytalon.livejournal.com]

A lot of ribbons are put at angles now. Every day I see yellow ribbons, especially, on cars skewed at an angle. I think it's for one of three reasons: Vertically, it doesn't fit on the panel; oddly, someone thinks it should be tilted so the text is horizontal; moronically, someone saw it tilted and thought they should have theirs tilted too. I see them tilted so much that I first think "fish" and then "ribbon."

It's been irritating me lately. >.>

[dkmnow.livejournal.com]

"I am not a pucking fuzzle!"

But I AM a criminal. I mean, I've been diagnosed with Asperger's, right? And people with Asperger's are all criminals. It's true. I know, 'cause I sawr it on the teevee.

grumblegrumble...

[ex-miut911.livejournal.com]

Wow. I never realised that as an autistic, I should naturally have urges to poison people. They must have forgotten to add that to the diagnostic criteria. My cooking is bad, yes, but to the best of my knowledge not dangerous.

Seriously, sarcasm aside, I cannot find the logic in this article. I am trying to work out why these people seem to believe that being on the autistic spectrum is connected to cooking a cake with bleach in it, but hard as I try, I can't.

[staircase-wit.livejournal.com]

some people ought to be poisoned, though.