Xirilia wrote:mamaofanautistic wrote:venus_gal1 wrote:omg thats horrible, i have been around autistic kids before, and I'm sorry but i absouluty hate them, and i'm sorry but to me they are the worst. Besides the kid i was around was a total jerk, too. Bleh, but i hope you at least get a new game, if it will make you feel any better.
As the mother of an autistic child, I have to tell you I'm horrified and appalled at your total ignorance.
It makes me wonder: my son rides the short bus, but your total lack of compassion, intelligence, and understanding makes me think that perhaps the school district got it wrong.
I also wonder at the intelligence of your parents raising such a fool.
I can go on and tell you many more things, but I'd be wasting my breath. Bottom line here, is, before you shoot off your mouth think about what you say. Thank you.
I'd like to say the same for you. Attacking someone like that is not ok either. You can't really help how you feel on certain issue especially when that's your only experience to it. I'm sure there are issues you know nothing about but have an opinion on as well. Now there's nothing wrong on trying to express your side but I found this post to be rather on the offensive and attacking. I wonder how you were before you had your autistic kid. Don't you think you have a different and more understanding then someone who's just seen a kid who happens to be autistic and happens to be a naughty kid.
I have great respect for those who work with autistic kids because that's a level of patience I don't know that I could achieve on a regular basis. And I have even more respect for those who treat them as though their real people inside and actually sit down with them and try to show them right and wrong, but the fact is there's alot of parents (usually the ones you'll run into) who think that autistic kids are not kids and should be let to get whatever they want and really does the kid more harm and further separates them from everyone else because they dont learn the social skills they need because of it and dont learn right and wrong
now there are tons of normal kids as well that just get their way and know how to work their parents and what not but when an autistic kid does it and that number being less of what you run into you might get the idea that autistic kids are all like that, instead of the real truth that deep down there are good kids and bad kids or good moments and bad moments (just as there are for everyone)
but calling someone a fool and insulting their parents and insulting their intelligence and morals is not teaching tolerance it's just showing a greater divide
teach instead of attack, i understand that you're a mother and you see that as an attack on your baby and you have to defend that and tahts a great thing but doing it in a better manner will help everybody including you and your son
i will say no more on the issue because this is harvest moon boards not a place for subjects of this sort of matter but i just had to say that attacking people is not going to help and definitely has no place on the board even less then talking about such a thing would go
Sorry Xirila, but I'm going to continue to stick to what I said. My son is severely autistic and he's not a brat, he's severe. It sickens me to see the level of ignorance. It's up to the parents to teach a child more tolerance, and obviously, there was no tolerance in this case. They raised a fool.
I respect you trying to tell me as a mom I should be "more tolerant." No, I shouldn't be, not when I'm defending an entire group of people who will eventually take over an entire generation. There is a wide range of people on the autistic spectrum. They are NOT brats. They simply canNOT help themselves with their OCD, which is a trait that shows up in nearly every autistic person.
Now, in real life, I am an autistic advocate, and I speak on behalf of everyone on the spectrum. I'm not going to sit by quietly and watch someone attack a group of people who are loving, intelligent, and above all, driven. You are right, this IS a board for HMDS, and I love the game. It never should have been brought up in the first place. I stand by what I said though, because half of them can't even defend themselves.
Also, asking me a question about how I was before is a bit amusing. I'm sure you are a great person- obviously, you would have to be to find something positive about a person attacking a person who can't defend themselves. However, how I was before isn't the issue. The issue here, is what I've stated.
I myself will stop talking about this, however, I felt I had to address the issues you raised.
Mark my words. More and more people are being born on the spectrum as we draw a breath. They will most likely take over an entire generation. It's time people started showing more compassion and understanding towards them.
