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The whole Ashley Treatment thing gave me a bad night last night. My mind was running wild with objections, worst-case scenarios and what have you and the only reason I slept at all was because I was exhausted.
Here are my views.
I find it perfectly HORRIBLE. I can not find in my mind a justification for doing that to a human being. It is against my moral and ethical standards to even THINK of such a thing.
I know the reasoning, it makes sense in a very logical way but I cannot abide doing that to your own child.
My worst problem with it is that it can snowball. That this ‘treatment’ if we can call it that, will be used for this and that and used so frequently it becomes common. So frequently someone slips by the system and does it just to keep their child little. Children that suffer from autism, mental retardation and any other learning/functioning disability will all stay children and I find that a VERY scary thought.
Here are my views.
I find it perfectly HORRIBLE. I can not find in my mind a justification for doing that to a human being. It is against my moral and ethical standards to even THINK of such a thing.
I know the reasoning, it makes sense in a very logical way but I cannot abide doing that to your own child.
My worst problem with it is that it can snowball. That this ‘treatment’ if we can call it that, will be used for this and that and used so frequently it becomes common. So frequently someone slips by the system and does it just to keep their child little. Children that suffer from autism, mental retardation and any other learning/functioning disability will all stay children and I find that a VERY scary thought.