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

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scorptatious said:
So I was just checking my e-mail when I noticed this interesting bit of news:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/ontario-police-aware-hateful-letter-telling-family-euthanize-171036930.html

To put it simply, a lady in Ontario gets pissed off at this autistic kid for screaming loudly outside and writes a very hateful letter to his family which includes how much of a nuisance he was, how he'll never be employed, get married, and of course that he should be euthanized.

As someone who was diagnosed alongside his brother with autism, this sorta hits a little close to home. It kinda shows how ugly a person's thoughts can be when they are turned into words.

Thoughts?
I'm autistic.....and now I'm pissed
 

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Chaosritter said:
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I don't know how many of you had to deal with barely functional retards
Every day on the internet.

But please, do continue
Yeah well, imagine /b/ being in your neighbours garden every day. I wonder how long it'd take till you imagine bombing the place with napalm.
A bouquet of cunts like /b/ wouldn't even be an issue. My neighbours would gas the annoying fucks and then apologise to me for any disturbance stemming from it. That's the beauty of living on a street with a predominantly Sikh population. :D
 

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Chaosritter said:
RhombusHatesYou said:
Chaosritter said:
I don't know how many of you had to deal with barely functional retards
Every day on the internet.

But please, do continue
Yeah well, imagine /b/ being in your neighbours garden every day. I wonder how long it'd take till you imagine bombing the place with napalm.
I should hope a lot less time then it would take for me to consider the idea of slipping an anonymous letter under someone's door telling said neighbors that they're selfish individuals for letting /b/ have fun and not moving out (Because that's just so fucking easy these days, isn't it!) and saying that /b/ would be much better off dead and donated to science.
I have a feeling you're kind of missing the point of the outrage here.
Thinking "Damnit, that autistic in the yard is annoying the crap out of me" is OK. It's not really under your control, thoughts are like that.
Sending anonymous letters saying that children would be better off dead isn't.

And as a side note, I honestly can't believe I actually have to explain that.
 

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Though I'm probably pretty alone with that, I'm on the mom's side.

I don't know how many of you had to deal with barely functional retards so far, but they go beyond being a mere annoyance VERY quick if nobody takes proper care of them. They endanger themselves and others, cause damage and, like in this case, can easily terrorize entire neighbourhoods.

The parents shall either change their way of life and take proper care of their "little miracle" or put him into a clinic that's specialized in taking care of this kind of needs. If they refuse, the child protection must take action and put him into a state home.

Being moral is easy as long you aren't affected yourself. You'd be surprised how many people would change their mind after walking a mile in the mom's shoes.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present the most empathetic individual ever. You know that retards isn't the preferred nomenclature, right? And I very much doubt that you've had much experience with "barely functional retards." Either that or you were the world's greatest PCA ever (note that I am being sarcastic here).
 

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everyone is annoying at some point so going that far isn't called for and just makes you look bad
 

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A child being loud in a backyard? Oh, the humanity! This woman really needs to go fuck herself and learn some fucking compassion.

Even if she wrote a polite letter to the parents, it would still be abhorrent. A loud child in a backyard really ruins your day? How selfish could you be? And then, to specifically attack the child's disability? That is fucking pathetic.
 

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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?
Ah, Hallo mein Furhrer! Yes, I agree with you, we must kill the all the untermench. After all, they are a drain to society, and as we all know, the only thing that matters is money, not the fact that people have a right to live regardless of what ails them. And Also is common knowledge, those with disabilities surely can not live a happy life, even though 90% do and I as someone with Aspergers Syndrome who is enjoying his life as will many others with disabilities. For surely autism is an illness of the untermench and not a rewiring of the brain. For we must keep the gene pool pure and clean for all the Ubermench and while we are at it, let us kill them for more lebensraum for the Ubermench. Sig Heil, Mein Furhrer!! (<------Does not like Eugenics....at all.....ever.)

OT: In case my rant above doesnt show how I feel: F*** THAT WOMAN!! She is a scum of a person and I hope that she gets royally chewed out by the other people around her.
 

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Tenkage said:
RhombusHatesYou said:
Tenkage said:
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Tenkage said:
I'm autistic.....and now I'm pissed
You know, for sufficient monetary inducement, my nephew could teach Duelingf with 40lb Sledgehammers.

Don't worry I got a wooden sword
That's nice... Do you want to test it out against a 40lb sledgehammer?
I'm autistic, not stupid
Well, you could be both. Just checking. :p
 

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WTF as an autistic person I am deeply offended by what that woman said. I would've done something else than just make hate mail. That's hugely disrespectful :/

Reading the whole note even made me angrier.... Autistic people are not idiots or "retarded"... and I love the world "normal" being used here because that is what this woman is not.
 

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Is it acceptable behovior from an adult? Hell no. Then again, there are some people who find it funny to joke about throwing a crying baby out of a plane, so clearly some adults have a screwy, selfish mind.

However, if the child is outside and constantly wailing, there is something wrong. The article lacks a hell of a lot of context, but it gives me the impression that the child is not getting the care and attention they need, if they really are constantly wailing.
Then again, this article is too vague. I understand the difficulty of being in an apartement close to people making a lot of noise (music, babies, sex, etc.) but this person seems to have gone over the edge.
Uh, quick note, right here:

The thing about this child is that he has Autism. I'm willing to bet a pretty severe case of it too. Being a big sister of a severely Autistic brother and having grown up with him and seeing a lot of his fellow developmentally disabled classmates, I'll just let you know...Just because the child is outside, wailing or just making noise a lot, does NOT mean he's being poorly cared for.

Kids with severe Autism make noise. That's just something they tend to do. Some make more than others. They can be sitting there calmly, but be rocking back and forth just making vocal noises. They don't really seem to have a lot of volume control. I can't say I understand the reasons why they do it other than it might be a comfort to them, but it is fairly common in kids with Autism. In fact, we learned with my brother, it was when things were totally quiet that was when he was up to something(like annoying my cat, or getting into food he's not supposed to have which we would then have to stop).

As for being outside, well, every kid is different. Autistic kids usually have a routine, and preferences about where they are and the things they do. For my brother, he mainly just hangs out in the dining room where he can watch his movies and have his toys on the table. The kid this letter is harassing, apparently likes being outside in his yard(where he is perfectly entitled to be). Whether it's the front yard or the back yard I don't think was specified? But yes, Autistic kids CAN GO OUT into their yards and enjoy doing so too. Some are better at sticking around and not wandering off than others.

I'm not going to jump to conclusions and say that the mother of the child is not doing a thing to watch the kid, that is not the point, and is not immediately obvious in this situation since all we have to go off of is this bigot's pathetic and hateful rant, because as I have said, Autistic kids wail or otherwise vocalize, seemingly without reason to us "normal" people. And they have their zones where they feel most comfortable, sometimes it could be a backyard, or like my brother, the dining room.

I just want to clear up the fact that THAT IS NORMAL for Autistic and other developmentally challenged kids and not a sure sign of negligence or abuse.
 

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SadisticFire said:
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?
"Money is a representation of human effort"

Wow, that is a really sad way to look at life. I hope you find another ideology to live by sooner than later. I truly do.

And your stance on eugenics doesn't seem all that well thought out. Have you researched much into it? Because there are much more inventive ways eugenics can be implemented without the sterilization that you suggested. It'd be especially silly for someone to support something so controversial without actually knowing anything about it.
 

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scorptatious said:
So I was just checking my e-mail when I noticed this interesting bit of news:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/ontario-police-aware-hateful-letter-telling-family-euthanize-171036930.html

To put it simply, a lady in Ontario gets pissed off at this autistic kid for screaming loudly outside and writes a very hateful letter to his family which includes how much of a nuisance he was, how he'll never be employed, get married, and of course that he should be euthanized.

As someone who was diagnosed alongside his brother with autism, this sorta hits a little close to home. It kinda shows how ugly a person's thoughts can be when they are turned into words.

Thoughts?
well, some <url=http://www.newser.com/story/172829/community-rallies-after-autistic-boy-gets-hate-mail.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=clearchannel&utm_campaign=story>good news is at least the community rallied around the family with the autistic child (at lease some did).
 

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SadisticFire said:
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?
So, because I have autism, I'm not allowed to have kids?

I'm sorry but FUCK THAT.

I'm not saying I will be a father someday, nor do I want to be one anytime soon. And I can kinda agree in the sense that if a person is unable to care for themselves, it might not be a good idea for them to have kids.

But saying that people like me should be prevented from breeding just because we may "taint the gene pool" as you say, it sorta comes off as disgusting.

Have a pleasant day mein fuhrer.

And now, mods, you are free to punish me.
 

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Simply said...this is not how we approach a problem by putting our emotions at the forefront of the complaint, I may WANT to go over and tell my neighbours that I often want to punch their kid because it is a fucking brat and they are enablers letting yet another one of their children sink into a deplorable hole of pathetic social behaviour and they themselves deserve to be punched, but that doesn't really do much and it isn't constructive to fire on all cylinders from the get go, maybe start off small and escalate when nothing is done.
 

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Gut reaction: "No, and bog off back to Tiergartenstraße. You and swines like you can pretend you're brave holders of unpopular but righteous opinions out of sight. Please close the windows".

After a bit of a think:

We live in enough abundance in modern civilization that we can look after those who were not as lucky as we were to be born in a normal state. Therefore, we should. There is no point pretending we're jackals doing what is necessary for the survival of the pack in meager times in the wild. Helping those that were not as fortunate as ourselves is a good idea, since it could very well be you who needed help. Or will need help.

And I do not believe that the writer of that letter is much of a valuable contribution to the bloody genepool herself.

After a little more thinking: This is certainly a problem. But there are better ways to handle it than suggesting the child to be killed. Like a healthy, grown adult should be able to deduce on their own.
 

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Eh, people suck, this is nothing new.

Also, while the letter was way out there keep in mind there are two sides to this story...

How many people here would want to go strangle the kid next door if he is constantly wailing (whaling, hilarious, apparently autistic people should join Japaness marine "research vessels)

While the letter was just terrible on many levels the parents of the autistic child should also try and spare their neighbors from as much loud wailing as they can. If the child is left out making this noise for hours then I think any neighbor would be pissed off, myself included.

Just look at the number of exclamation points that woman used. A clear sign she had been driven out of her mind by the wailing!