tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33052404.post4258192041802383836..comments2024-02-13T21:31:57.980-04:00Comments on Facing Autism in New Brunswick: Invisible Autistics: The Severely AutisticAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05838571980003579163noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33052404.post-54341065351867170812008-06-11T20:53:00.000-03:002008-06-11T20:53:00.000-03:00maddySorry I wasn't clear enough for you. Public ...maddy<BR/><BR/>Sorry I wasn't clear enough for you. Public tantrums don't tell observers anything about autism as an explanatory factor unless the parents decide to educate onlookers at every such event.<BR/><BR/>The invisible reference is to the mass media which rarely educates the public about the negative realities. They, like neurodiversity bloggers, of which you are one, like to ignore such unpleasant realities. Tolerance does not grow because the public is not made aware of these behaviors and what lies behind them.<BR/><BR/>The public is fed a steady diet of savant and breakthrough stories mixed with college bound, articulate "autistics" like your friends in the "Autism" Rights Movement.<BR/><BR/>But maybe I am wrong. Please let me know the next time ABC News or CNN interviews someone like the middle aged autistic woman in a Long Island residential care facility who could not tell the world that staff there were regularly assaulting her? <BR/><BR/>Or maybe you can let me know when New York Magazine features a child who is being treated for severe self biting or head banging to the point of brain injury? If these cases are not invisible to the major networks and publications have dealt with some of the harsher autism realities please let me know when they aired so I can track down copies of the shows or articles. I must have missed them. <BR/><BR/>The very best to you and your family.<BR/><BR/>Respectfully,<BR/><BR/>Conor's DadAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05838571980003579163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33052404.post-7262165230495001932008-06-11T20:22:00.000-03:002008-06-11T20:22:00.000-03:00I certainly relate to the public meltdowns where a...I certainly relate to the public meltdowns where as the children grow 'larger' there are very few people who understand, although I'm inclined to say that it's anything but 'invisible.'<BR/><BR/>A little bit more tolerance would be greatly appreciated by everyone.<BR/>Best wishesMaddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05828186178060722812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33052404.post-79626424764692262122008-06-11T11:18:00.000-03:002008-06-11T11:18:00.000-03:00It is not just the severely autistics who are igno...It is not just the severely autistics who are ignored by the media but persons like myself with relatively mild autism who are well in adulthood who can't find mates and whose disability impairs their ability to make a living and whose problems impair their ability to relate to people and have conflicts as well as (in my case) perceptual motor and handwriting problems, stuff like that. Those who believe there is an autism epidemic claim the lack of autistic adults is the part of the proof. We are really there, people just want to make autistics out to be peter pans because they don't want to acknowledge the poor prognosis for even those of us whose autism is relatively mild.jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14972394536850151087noreply@blogger.com