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Someone Sent An Anonymous Letter To A Grandmother Telling Her To 'Euthanize' Her Autistic Grandsonby Pamela Engel at Business Insider
http://www.businessinsider.com/letter-to-grandmother-of-autistic-son-2013-8
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applegrove
(118,501 posts)madrchsod
(58,162 posts)at least three of my facebook pages are reporting this .
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Not sure how else to put it.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)reason to be so angry. What a vicious lout. I can not believe what I just read. I'm near fucking tears just thinking of the pain this poor grandmother must have felt when she read this vile, inhumane screed.
Yeah, I have an autistic cousin and a family who has a history of mental illness. I suppose that makes me especially sensitive to this shit.
applegrove
(118,501 posts)Last edited Tue Aug 20, 2013, 03:18 AM - Edit history (1)
happened in my neck of the woods. I know people who have kids with LDs. They'll handle it. They'll write a letter, start a demonstration and fight to transform shit like this into a learning moment. Trust me. You don't know what love and empowerment is until you've met one of these people with autistic kids.
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)Can't help but wonder if there's a few out there who wish that ADD sufferers would be euthanized as well......still a tragically imperfect world we live in, Ed.
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)almost as though I'm a different person on my Concerta. Focused and hard working. I'm sure I was super annoying to people before I got some treatment. I would hope it wouldn't be bad enough to wish me dead, but nothing would surprise me.
Systematic Chaos
(8,601 posts)The musician's son is about six or seven, and according to my social media friend he "tends to make some noises when he's excited."
Well, what kid doesn't? Just because a kid is autistic and can't shout out in perfect English -- or whatever the local language -- shouldn't mean a thing.
I hope the parents of the child who got this letter are successful in their efforts to press charges against the fuckers who left this note. I don't know, because the note does stop short of making outright threats, but still that's no fucking way to behave.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)bothers others.
niyad
(113,079 posts)tempted to copy that letter, and make all the necessary corrections for spelling and grammar, and post it all over the neighborhood, because, apart from being a sick, twisted and hateful person, the writer is a moran.
The writer is also a coward or they would have signed the letter.
MattBaggins
(7,897 posts)Hope they can trace it back to the sender.
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)I realize some people legitimately have trouble dealing with developmentally disabled people(I've known a few myself), but this isn't one of those cases. I mean, calling for euthanasia of this poor kid? That was just over the line. I'm sorry, but this kid deserves to have a life; he deserves treatment of his condition, and not being put down like a sick animal......because for all his problems, Max is STILL a human being, and should be acknowledged as such like everybody else.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)AppetiteForApathy
(22 posts)That's for damn sure.
applegrove
(118,501 posts)AppetiteForApathy
(22 posts)But the hate they probably mimic now is sad.
applegrove
(118,501 posts)liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)Warpy
(111,169 posts)Sometimes I hate the human race. Then I remember filth like this scumsucking asswipe unempathetic sociopath aren't really part of it, they're throwbacks to some sort of savage, pre human past.
I can be mean, too, and I not only know a lot more words than she does, I can spell 'em all correctly.
Given a choice, I'll live next door to the noisy kid instead of the intolerant, huffy twit who writes hateful letters on purple paper.
My guess is that the mom knows exactly who wrote this. Good for her for publishing it online.
The author of this dreadful shit accused the boy of "whaling." I think the kid should start carrying a stuffed orca with him everywhere he goes!
dawg
(10,621 posts)including her family, who should turn their backs on the heartless sociopath as well.
enigmatic
(15,021 posts)He's been embraced by the community here and I use him myself for deliveries.
Watch the "Meet Anthony" video in the link to get an idea; he's a wonderful young man.
http://globalnews.ca/news/790139/man-with-autism-reaches-business-milestone/?utm_source=facebook-twitter&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=community
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)do or not, but he certainly has the people skills. He has such a great sense of humor everybody that meets him likes him.
sheshe2
(83,660 posts)It's from a Woman a Mother and that makes it worse. How could she call for Max to be Euthanized.
There is a special place in Hell for someone like that!
MattBaggins
(7,897 posts)with 99.99999999% probability.
FSogol
(45,452 posts)Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)applegrove
(118,501 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)it seems to be real. Too bad the Business Insider page is another one that took 3 minutes to load but the links were unclickable.
Would be interesting to out whoever wrote it to the neighborhood. (Just be sure you got the right person before another nasty injustice is done)
SwampG8r
(10,287 posts)Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)Sissyk
(12,665 posts)That cannot be a mother.
I swear, where do all these cruel people come from??
TheMightyFavog
(13,770 posts)*puts detective hat on*
I think the vile "person" who wrote this screed may have been born in the United States.
Look at the way the word "neighborhood" is spelled.
Canadians spell it "neighbourhood."
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Sorry, but that's the word for this 'woman'.
Life has a way of dealing with those this hateful and stupid.
TheBlackAdder
(28,168 posts)Probably the same person who is against birth control.
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Now that the kid's born... KILL IT!
narnian60
(3,510 posts)griping (to my husband) about misbehaving kids in restaurants.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)own yard that says, "Say it to my face"
That's all
lpbk2713
(42,741 posts)When it comes right down to it the author the cowardly anonymous note has no idea what it takes.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)has for her children or for other's children.
lpbk2713
(42,741 posts)This poser wouldn't even know where to start.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)I thought yours was a civilised country.
Then again, it is where 12-year-old Tracy Latimer, who had cerebral palsy, was murdered, in cold blood, by her father, generating a nationwide outpouring of sympathy. For the father. Who was only "putting her out of her misery."
Not to bash Canada so much as to point out that all North America, and the rest of the world, has a loooooooong way to go in terms of basic human rights for people with disabilities.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)I can see where having harpoons constantly thudding into your wall might be a bit disconcerting.
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)niyad
(113,079 posts)niyad
(113,079 posts)child's GRANDMOTHER. she did not give birth to him--in case you do not understand, perhaps you should consider a refresher course in basic reproductive biology (not to mention a remedial english course).
Hugabear
(10,340 posts)Let him die!
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)in the burbs and they aren't going to let humanity get in the way of their grand fucking plan. I don't know if she drinks the tea, but it wouldn't surprise me in the least.
I've seen girls in high school dress people down like that. It was disgusting then. It's disgusting now.
niyad
(113,079 posts)burnodo
(2,017 posts)It's an anonymous screed you English-challenged numbnut!
thucythucy
(8,039 posts)people with disabilities. They want to shunt them into institutions, keep them out of the public schools, keep them out of sight, even kill them.
The first group of people the German Nazis decided to systematically murder were people with disabilities. The technologies of mass murder they developed killing children and adults with disabilities (gas vans, gas chambers) were then applied to Jews, GLBTs, and Romani (often called "Gypsies" . Here in the US the eugenics movement openly called for the mass sterilization of people with disabilities, and the majority of states passed laws enabling state institutions to do just that.
It's one of the oldest prejudices in the world, and any progressive agenda has to include disability rights.
This hateful screed just brings home that point to me, all the more.
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)Braving the high seas with nothing but a boat and harpoon is serious business.
Bright lady who wrote that.