Angry mom sends letter to family of autistic child telling them to have him euthanized.

[nightmare_gorilla]

I love this story, truly love it, it's absolutely perfect in all aspects but one. the letter is not signed. I am 100% in favor of free speech and you know what i'm in favor of hate speech to be honest. When someone has thoughts like this but is afraid to express them because their afraid of what people might say that doesn't change their mind it doesn't accomplish anything, if a racist is afraid to say anything racist they just go about their day quietly being racist. but when you have someone willing to say stuff like in this letter openly. then we as a people know who that person really is, what they think, and they can't quietly be prejudiced anymore people who are good will separate themselves from these types of people voluntarily and they are ostracized as a result. people need to know who the nutjobs are so they can form teams and unless that nutjob is free to express their messed up believes you might wind up with nutjobs on your team.

 

[shootthebandit]

Heres my 2 cents. People who are ignorant, rude and intolerant should be euthanised. People who use phrases like "my normal children" and "you disable kid should be euthanised because he wont achieve the arbritrary standards that society thrusts on people"

Without these people society would be vastly improved. Granted there will only be a few of us left but thats ok. Quality is better than quantity

 

[OtherSideofSky]

Speaking as someone with fairly mild autism, some of the language in that letter strikes me as troublingly close to the talking points of the American eugenics movement throughout the better part of the 20th century. It's a lot harder to take as a joke when there's precedent of that kind of thinking almost becoming law, and getting close enough to spawn the widespread systems of institutionalization that were the face of American mental health care for decades.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

okay, check this shit......


HOORAY FOR THE SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE OPINION! YOU ROCK!

 

[James Joseph Emerald]

I am shocked by the number of people here saying "yeah, the lady got a little bit carried away, but..."

I'd far prefer to live next to an autistic kid than a raving sociopath like her. What's her next letter going to be? "Dear Stephen Hawkings, I'm getting real sick of the sound of your electric wheelchair and your creepy 'voice'. Being paralysed from the neck down, it's not like you're ever going to get laid, so how about you just kill yourself?"

I'm shocked, but not surprised. The Escapist community is always so contrary about everything...

 

[Silverbeard]

I suppose the angry mom deserves some credit for saying what was probably on everyone's mind. That credit is drowned out by the distaste associated with providing no constructive criticism to the parents of the poor lad. I do wonder if the angry mom would have gone the same route she had if the lad was missing his legs and his wheelchair was blocking her driveway or something.
Still, she raises one valid point: Disabled people (physical or mental) are not meant to last very long. I count myself amongst them; I have a rather serious stutter and this has severely restricted my employment opportunities. Most of the time I cannot verbally communicate with interested employers looking to grant me an interview- or call them back to follow up after the fact in those rare instances when I get a sympathetic person on the line. Even if I do get a job, I will not ever advance to any positions of authority or leadership; the level of verbal communication required for such things is well beyond my ability. Military service is equally unlikely; they have no room for speech cripples. Following Darwinian principles, I and others like me are fated to die well before we can pass our defective genes onto another generation.
It is a harsh sentiment to accept, but there is a certain solace in knowing that one was never meant for greatness, or even mediocrity.

 

[Living Contradiction]

Did a little more research on this particular article.

The home in question doesn't belong to the parents. It's the grandmother's home. The child goes there every once and a while to visit his grandmother and use grandma's trampoline in the backyard. Think for a minute about any child using a trampoline. Now imagine a child doing so without making a sound.

The grandmother has been in that location for over four years. So if the puddle of slime that exuded this letter had an issue, it had all the time in the world to approach the family in question and say, calmly, that the child was being too loud.

This isn't the first time the child has been treated poorly by neighbours. He had a ball that he tossed around the backyard and, because kids occasionally overthrow and the ball cleared the fence, the ball had the grandmother's name and address on it so it could be returned. One fine day, the ball was returned after being carefully cut to shreds.

On the topic, there's no excuse for letters or language like this. None. Here on the internet, using that kind of language and hatred earns any number of fitting labels and, on moderated channels, a well-deserved comeuppance in the shape of a hammer. Out in reality, it's called third-degree assault (putting people in fear of their lives) and it comes with a nice trip to a building with bars on the windows and doors. I can only hope that this gets considered a hate crime so that the wretch who did this has a nice record to follow her around for the rest of her days.

 

[Hero of Lime]

I can understand that dealing with a mentally challenged person can be difficult, if not even frightening, this woman is in the wrong by a large degree. It's pretty sad that a grown woman has less sense to handle the situation in a better way than, "I find your disabled kid annoying, kill him and save everyone else the trouble." Decency called, it wants to used again ma'am.

 

[Erttheking]

Oh, I'm so sorry lady that you have to put up with a child screaming. The same thing that I have to deal with 20 cunting times every day when I'm at work, but I'VE yet to issue death threats.

Yeah, pardon me if I'm not exactly sympathetic to your plight.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

a mentally challenged person

That's it, I challenge you to a duel.

40lb sledgehammers at dawn.

 

[emmyisnotcool]

Did a little more research on this particular article.

The home in question doesn't belong to the parents. It's the grandmother's home. The child goes there every once and a while to visit his grandmother and use grandma's trampoline in the backyard. Think for a minute about any child using a trampoline. Now imagine a child doing so without making a sound.

The grandmother has been in that location for over four years. So if the puddle of slime that exuded this letter had an issue, it had all the time in the world to approach the family in question and say, calmly, that the child was being too loud.

This isn't the first time the child has been treated poorly by neighbours. He had a ball that he tossed around the backyard and, because kids occasionally overthrow and the ball cleared the fence, the ball had the grandmother's name and address on it so it could be returned. One fine day, the ball was returned after being carefully cut to shreds.

On the topic, there's no excuse for letters or language like this. None. Here on the internet, using that kind of language and hatred earns any number of fitting labels and, on moderated channels, a well-deserved comeuppance in the shape of a hammer. Out in reality, it's called third-degree assault (putting people in fear of their lives) and it comes with a nice trip to a building with bars on the windows and doors. I can only hope that this gets considered a hate crime so that the wretch who did this has a nice record to follow her around for the rest of her days.

Finally the sane, conclusive statement on this matter. Fuck all ya'll that say euthanizing a kid because they are autistic is A okay. The woman who wrote this letter is near sociopathic in her disregard of other human beings lives.

 

[Hero of Lime]

a mentally challenged person

That's it, I challenge you to a duel.

40lb sledgehammers at dawn.

Wait! I meant that in general, I wasn't targeting autism in any way. I actually dealt with a schizophrenic relative, and believe me, he was so far gone it was terrifying to be around him before he finally had to go to an institution to get help. If I offended you, I apologize.

Though I do like the occasional sledgehammer duel...

 

[cikame]

I don't think knowing a kid had a disability would change how i felt, considering that i'm forcing my way through work each week, extremely tired, i just want some peace, and now i'm listening to a kid screaming for hours.

Don't get me wrong, i wouldn't write a letter telling them all to die, but knowing what people are like i wouldn't expect the parents to try any harder to shut the kid up.

 

[Varrdy]

You had a retarded kid, deal with it... properly!!!!!{/quote]

As if they did it on purpose?!?

I hate un-necessary noise but whoever wrote this is going way the f**k too far! I feel one of my very rare C-Bombs coming on...

 

[Cabisco]

Interesting that this comes up during our debates about whats acceptable to be said online, which if I've learnt anything from it's that the mother of the autistic child should just have a thicker skin and accept people want her son to be killed...

Clearly the writer of the letter is overreacting and I hope once she calmed down she felt exceptionally bad for what she wrote.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

I don't know how many of you had to deal with barely functional retards

Every day on the internet.

But please, do continue

 

[Palademon]

I could understand a person exclaiming their frustration at something like this, but holy christ that letter had some disturbingly specific and malicious stuff.

If anyone is commenting "Well yeah they'd be annoyed", read the damn letter. It's disturbing.

 

[glider4]

I once had to sit in front of a child like this at a play. True it was annoying but I would never think of doing something like that. Also crying babies and barking dogs may be more normal sounds but they are FAR more annoying. I like how it says it's from "one pissed off mother," like being a mum makes what you say more important. Although you see that alot, parents trying to censor everything saying "it's for the good of my children" honestly why do people like this exist?!

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

You all annoy me and should be killed for your temerity.

 

[SadisticFire]

Well I'm about to have the unpopular opinion because of my supportive stance of eugenics. Her method and words to carry out the opinion she expressed could've definitely be reworded to fit better. But when anything costs more economic money to keep alive, than it will ever possibly produce, than it's not worth it. Money is a representation of human effort, and that means you're putting effort into something that never gives back, only takes. Ontop of the fact that said human has a large chance of tainting the gene pool it would be better to remove them from it. I don't want anyone to suffer from autism in the future. It's a burden, what selfish right do we have to make a human life to cause suffering upon themselves, and others?