Jenny's in the News Again
From a recent tweet of Ms. McCarthy:
Stories circulating online, claiming that I said my son Evan may not have autism after all, are blatantly inaccurate and completely ridiculous. Evan was diagnosed with autism by the Autism Evaluation Clinic at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital and was confirmed by the State of California (through their Regional Center). The implication that I have changed my position, that my child was not initially diagnosed with autism (and instead may suffer from Landau-Kleffner Syndrome), is both irresponsible and inaccurate. These stories cite a "new" Time Magazine interview with me, which was actually published in 2010, that never contained any such statements by me. Continued misrepresentations, such as these, only serve to open wounds of the many families who are courageously dealing with this disorder. Please know that I am taking every legal measure necessary to set this straight.
- @JennyMcCarthy, via TwitLonger
The posts being cited now do indeed seem to either be from 2010 or link back to that Time article published in 2010; I have no idea what, exactly, is in the article from Time as it's behind a paywall. I'm not incredibly surprised that someone in the media picked up on the idea that Evan was never autistic, but I am pretty surprised that someone's managed to get a (possibly manufactured!) quote about it to go viral 3 years later.
What can you find about all this? What do you think about it?
Stories circulating online, claiming that I said my son Evan may not have autism after all, are blatantly inaccurate and completely ridiculous. Evan was diagnosed with autism by the Autism Evaluation Clinic at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital and was confirmed by the State of California (through their Regional Center). The implication that I have changed my position, that my child was not initially diagnosed with autism (and instead may suffer from Landau-Kleffner Syndrome), is both irresponsible and inaccurate. These stories cite a "new" Time Magazine interview with me, which was actually published in 2010, that never contained any such statements by me. Continued misrepresentations, such as these, only serve to open wounds of the many families who are courageously dealing with this disorder. Please know that I am taking every legal measure necessary to set this straight.
- @JennyMcCarthy, via TwitLonger
The posts being cited now do indeed seem to either be from 2010 or link back to that Time article published in 2010; I have no idea what, exactly, is in the article from Time as it's behind a paywall. I'm not incredibly surprised that someone in the media picked up on the idea that Evan was never autistic, but I am pretty surprised that someone's managed to get a (possibly manufactured!) quote about it to go viral 3 years later.
What can you find about all this? What do you think about it?