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Just read this, shaking with fury
I tend to take things like this hard, because I was raised to respect everyone's right to live as long as they don't try to deny that right to someone else. The woman who wrote the letter clearly wasn't. I hope that they find who she is and file criminal charges against her. She is one of the things that are wrong with society in general, and should be rectified.
Wow. What a terrible thing to send to a parent. Especially the part about giving his body parts to science. That's just deplorable.
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Karma is an intricately complex and oftentimes painfully slow Rube Goldberg-ian mechanism. While it sucks she makes life undeserving difficult for others, take comfort that she assuredly makes her own life miserable in countless ways.
I have seen far worse.
This doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
This disgusts me on both professional and personal levels.
Well, so much for the Canadian stereotype. Also, did you any of you come across the thing about the that couple lobbying for a child free neighborhood?
When I clicked the link you provided one of things towards the bottom in the comment section started a playing a radio spot about some people from a neighborhood in Toronto, Liberty Meadows, want to implement a bylaw keeping families with kids from moving into a four block area around their house here's a Link
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When I clicked the link you provided one of things towards the bottom in the comment section started a playing a radio spot about some people from a neighborhood in Toronto, Liberty Meadows, want to implement a bylaw keeping families with kids from moving into a four block area around their house here's a Link
"I'm a designer and it's ugly to have bikes littered around"? WHAT.
Also, you can just hear that the radio guy is looking at them as if they are crazy at the finish of the interview.
I didn't finish listening. I had to work today and I have only so much room for the unpleasant kind of insanity.
Adding into the soup the fact that not only does the lad have autism but the mother also has MS.
Ideally this is just a stupid mean prank and not an actual mother's opinion.
Yeah letters like this makes me want to go out and hit people. Have been a 'special needs' child with brain damage I have seen this attitude in adults a dozen time growing up...nothing this bad or obvious...but saddly I can't say I am surprised by it.
Hmmm. The community has rallied around them. I sincerely hope that it was not the autist child's mother who wrote it, counting on that. When reading the letter, I felt something was off. The stuff written in the letter is too angry, something difficult to maintain when writing a rather long letter. Either way, people can truly be s%$&.
LOL that had to be a phoney bologna bit there is no way any person is that smug like on the radio clip.
I'd love to have the autistic kid for a neighbor over the s$++heads I have now.
On the plus side, it is good to see the community rallying around the kid. There is still a ways to go, as the letter proves, but the stigma of mental illness and different brain types is lessening.
A friend of mine is an ABA therapist and his company has some amazing results with autistic kids, but it's so intensive and expensive that few people can afford it.
Hard to know without being there how its actually going down.
I would agree with a sentiment like 'If you're just letting your autistic kid sit around in the backyard and bay like a hyena, thats not responsible parenting, and if the sound he makes grates on your nerves, putting him in the back yard for a few hours is not the proper answer'...
And of course by the time someone is upset enough to write a letter I'm not surprised when I see that kind of language.
I think the biggest problem is neither of the people in this situation were made aware of the proper tools they could use to remedy the situation properly. The world as a whole is maybe not doing such a good job of caring about anyone else in it.
I don't think its as cut and dry as the article makes it. Irate letter writer definitely isnt helping her case by taking the tone she took. She's definitely not 'helping' or 'problem solving' or 'caring'.
Instead of writing that letter to the mother, she should have contacted the Department of Human Services to have the house checked on. Of course then again this is Toronto. I have no idea if such things exist up there. I've always been led to believe health and human services is easier to come by up there...
Being from America myself, If I were a gambling man I'd say the lady who wrote the letter sounds more like an American living in Canada than a Canadian... Either that or thats hands down the angriest canadian I've ever heard of.
LOL that had to be a phoney bologna bit there is no way any person is that smug like on the radio clip.I kinda think it's a joke too.
"This Is That is a current affairs program that doesn't just talk about the issues, it fabricates them."
On the original issue I can only quote Terry Pratchett: "Multiple exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind."
I agree with the commentor who wrote,
It looks to me like this was written by another kid - maybe a kid in his class. No adult mother would start a note with "To the lady living at this address:" - only a kid would begin a letter that way. And the rest of it also reads very much like something a child or an adolescent would write.
Obviously, it's still horrible, even if a child wrote it. But sadly, it's no less horrible than some of the things I saw bullies write, say and do when I was a kid. William Golding had it right regarding how jaw-dropping cruel children can be.
I first saw the letter on facebook. I didn't think it was real, that no one would ever really do that, right?
Then I saw in my guild in an MMO, a 12 year old ask another member an incredibly awkward question regarding his wife, and their marital habits. When told "Hey, that's not cool..." he honestly could not think of any reason why that subject should be off limits.
I could totally believe that same 12 year old would think it's perfectly OK to write such a letter, without regard to that kid's mother's feelings, or any other consequences.
It's just sad.
Adults do far far worse to children every day. I have seen much worse hatred and bigotry and stupidity from adults. I have no problem at all believing an adult would do this.
Meh if it was my kid, I'd go outside and howl with him.
Bonding is bonding.
I'd take him caroling at Chrsitmas...that'll piss off the neighbors.
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Children have not learned what is okay and what is not, how to resist group mentality, or how to understand others' feelings. Their brains aren't mature yet. Thus, they lack a number of behavioural stops that functioning adults have. Of course, many adults too lack those, such as adults without mature brains. What makes us shocked about children being cruel is partly that those children can be well behaved otherwise, and the fact that we want to idolize children and mistake being helpless for being good.
I am from Sweden. Cynicism is alive and well here too. But I never thought it died anywhere.
Seeing such real struggles is truly unbearable. If you cannot be equally privileged, please move to some third world country. You are bringing down the property values.