Autism isn’t a scale, there’s no such thing as severe or mild Autism.

Exactly. This article assumes that white women are a monolith, but really if you take a college educated white woman from a large city in the northeast, and a non-college educated or even a college educated religious white woman from the suburbs in, say, Mississippi, you might as well be talking about a different…

Nope, not even close to my problem with this article. I’m plenty worried that things could turn, but I also am not going to pretend 2020 is 2016.

I feel like this discussion has been had before, on a specific date. I’m trying to recall what it was .... I want to say it was March 3rd of this year.

Either to get white women who have been Democrats since they could vote to click and defend themselves, to others who think every white woman is the enemy because that’s so easy than to consider each person on their own merits.

It’s another click bait article.

A search of this article returns no results for “2018" or the term “mid-term” or “midterms”.

Why the fuck would I want to share the details of my personal life with someone like you? Your supposed love for your kid does not give you the right to speak about disabled people in a demeaning way.

I’m on the spectrum myself and I find it infinitely condescending to reduce me to a bunch of my interests (which don’t have any age restrictions) and infantalizing euphemisms like the other commenter suggests- not to mention it doesn’t actually convey any useful information on what to expect him to communicate with…

“I’m sorry, but as the mom of a special needs kid”

I am not defending dangerous “protocols” and what is essentially the abuse of a disabled person.

Thanks for your question—you make a good point, and I should have elaborated. Good journalists write about people with disabilities the same way they write about anybody else: by writing ABOUT them. For example, “Benjatrix is 36 years old and lives with his parents. He enjoys watching TV and playing with his dog.…

The thing is, there are so many different types of parents raising kids who have ASD, and the ones who aren’t crazy don’t get any press. This woman is not some sort of sympathetic face for how hard it is to raise kids with disabilities, she is an outlier who weighed the risks against the benefits and made a poor…

Hello fellow journalist! Please don’t use this construction or similar in the future: “Joshua has the mental development of an elementary school-aged boy.”

I think I covered that point with “It’s absolutely reprehensible and clearly a criminal act...”.

Yes, I don’t want to sympathize with these crazies because once you get to the MMS you’ve probably been batshit crazy for awhile, but there is a frustrating lack of good help for parents of kids with autism. There’s like ABA (which is insanely expensive and honestly seems like torture to me), OT (oh don’t have…

I’ve seen it. There’s no excuse for feeding your kids bleach.

Super proud of those kids. Also, loved the woman in the original clip. “Don’t you come near me without a mask!” Racist and covid denier it seems. Might be time to kick Susan out of the neighborhood.

It’s been kind of funny. Meme-ifying things does make them seem less serious but at least it holds people’s attention; yielding better public shaming than “anonymous white person did a racist thing” which is forgotten about almost immediately.

Can you dismiss the utter dipshit who actually typed this with zero evidence or backup?