Autism a Fraud?

Check out this link to a CNN video of a man calling autism a fraud. He says some of the most ridiculously ignorant things I have ever heard.

School of Shock

Wow.

This is an article about a real school in MA that shocks kids with behavior disorders as part of their "treatment plan". The kids, some as young as nine years old, are hooked up to an array of electrodes 24/7 and shocked for any bad behavior.

To quote one part, it says "Marguerite Famolare brought her son Michael to the Rotenberg Center six years ago, after he attacked her so aggressively she had to call 911 and, in a separate incident, flipped over a kitchen table onto a tutor. Michael, now 19, suffers from mental retardation and severe autism. These days, when he comes home for a visit, Marguerite carries his shock activator in her purse. All she has to do, she says, is show it to him. "He'll automatically comply to whatever my signal command may be, whether it is 'Put on your seatbelt,' or 'Hand me that apple,' or 'Sit appropriately and eat your food,'" she says. "It's made him a human being, a civilized human being."

It sounds to me like it made him an obediant robot, complying to any command.

Lara (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11480095954577891278), sent this article to me in a comment on the blog below this.

Check it out by clicking the title of this blog, going to the comments section of my last blog, or copying and pasting this into your browswer window:

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/09/school_of_shock.html

More Tasers

What the fuck is going on with the cops?

Seriously.


Another article here, where cops tasered a fifteen year old autistic child.

http://www.comcast.net/news/national/index.jsp?cat=DOMESTIC&fn=/2007/09/20/768988.html&cvqh=itn_teen

Autism

These are two amazing videos about two amazing autistic people. They will both blow your mind.




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