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[aesmael]

Autism Diva, she is nearly always worth your time.

From a post I shall call First:

Autism Diva is happy to see some excellent advocacy being done by Down syndrome people here in the United States. For some reason there isn't a "Down syndrome Speaks" organization wherein a representative of the organization talks about thinking about driving off a bridge with her Down's child, but thinking better of it because there's a normal child at home. No, for that you need to go visit the Autism Speaks website and watch the "Autism Every Day" video they are so proud of, or better yet, this critique of that video."

From a post I shall call Second:

"How angry is Giuseppe allowed to get for being shoved into a wall at school for the 80th time? How testy is Ariadne allowed to be when she's been tripped for 40th time in gym class? Does any of this come into the picture when the "trouble-making Asperger's kid" gets hauled off to the Judge Rotenberg Center to be shocked into submission? Is further tormenting a child, this time in a clinical setting, really the best way to deal with "behavioral" fall-out that likely is the result of being tormented for years?"

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