there's a lot of crazy out there
I joined up with this online group for autism. It was a large group, over 2,000 members. Said it was for parents of autistic kids. Well, it sort of was. If you are a crazy, bible-thumping, black person hating, gays are devil-worshipping pedophile believing parent who homeschools their child because the devil is in the public schools. I wasn't really reading a lot of the emails because I've been sick, but HOLY CRAZY ASS! I almost stayed joined up to see how nutty it would get.
I read one yesterday that was trying to blame autism on "the homosexual mutant gene is getting into our kids and ruining the integrity of the other dna". No. Really. And people responded IN AGREEMENT!
The last email was a woman from Alabama who was praying for Oprah's soul not to burn in hell. Why was Oprah going to hell? Because she was not able to believe in the One True God (it was caps in her email) and that her "new age Christ" was leading her into damnation.
Three words to really scare you: THESE PEOPLE VOTE.
This is what people are turning to. There is so much misinformation out there and so much we don't know about autism. Its to the point where folks are keeping their kids out of the system totally. People are afraid to vaccinate their kids so they are choosing not to and then homeschooling them. They are willing to believe anything rather than blindly accepting that their child is different from others. And really, isn't that what this is all about? Autism doesn't affect intelligence, it doesn't have a physical trait. Its just a different way of being. Does that mean we stop searching for a cure or a treatment or a way to help these kids? Course not. And until there are real answers out there, parents will need to weed through the fringe groups to find the good ones.
I read one yesterday that was trying to blame autism on "the homosexual mutant gene is getting into our kids and ruining the integrity of the other dna". No. Really. And people responded IN AGREEMENT!
The last email was a woman from Alabama who was praying for Oprah's soul not to burn in hell. Why was Oprah going to hell? Because she was not able to believe in the One True God (it was caps in her email) and that her "new age Christ" was leading her into damnation.
Three words to really scare you: THESE PEOPLE VOTE.
This is what people are turning to. There is so much misinformation out there and so much we don't know about autism. Its to the point where folks are keeping their kids out of the system totally. People are afraid to vaccinate their kids so they are choosing not to and then homeschooling them. They are willing to believe anything rather than blindly accepting that their child is different from others. And really, isn't that what this is all about? Autism doesn't affect intelligence, it doesn't have a physical trait. Its just a different way of being. Does that mean we stop searching for a cure or a treatment or a way to help these kids? Course not. And until there are real answers out there, parents will need to weed through the fringe groups to find the good ones.
I wonder, do they realize that God actually created the "homosexual mutant gene"? Oh my God, people like that are scary! It's one thing to have a belief system, it's another thing to be totally ignorant!!!
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