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[flameprincess]

It should not surprise me that she writes for thisHaunt my LJ long enough and you'll know I intensely dislike this woman. She continues to spread misinformation about the causes of austism without actually accepting that these things happen. What she also doesn't address at any point is the different levels of autism. Austism is not an illness,

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[flameprincess]

Agreed. Instead she gets fuckton publicity and credibility from organizations like Autism speaks. I don't get it. Nevermind that she can't seem to stay consistent if her child has Autism or not.

[popfiend]

While I don't generally have problems with HuffPo, I do have a lot of issues with JM's article, if for nothing else than the constant rhetorical strawmen she keeps constructing.

I've never seen poorer analysis or arguments that eat themselves more.

Did they start making stupid pills when I wasn't looking?

[flameprincess]

I'm sure she'll just blame in on the vaccinations she was forced to have.

The worst part is that she's running around blabbing about autism and how her son is cured and then turns around and indicates that her son was misdiagnosed. I get the whole feeling powerless and like you are at fault because your child isn't perfect but pointing fingers at everyone and everything else for blame isn't going to help. Especially for something that needs no blame assigned.

I don't know why she gets the credibility. What in her resume makes her qualified?

[popfiend]

She's an expert because her kid is autistic. So she must know what it's like.

And it's not qualifications, it's the pulpit. She's got celebrity and that automatically gives her a venue.

Mind you, her celebrity came about initially because she showed her b00bs, but...

And I think you hit the nail on the head about blame. I think she feels responsible or that someone has to be because her mind isn't capable of grasping the concept otherwise.

[flameprincess]

Except she says her kid isn't so how does one become an expert on it then?

I'm sure she does. I know I blamed myself when my son was diagnosed as ASD. I kept going over what I did while pregnant to see if that was the problem. I'm terrified that Rikku will be the same and then it will really be my fault. That doesn't mean I take bad medical advise and dispense it all over creation either.

[mshea]

And by, "the truth," what McCarthy means is "some crap I made up to make myself feel better." Of everything she says in that article the most mind-numbingly insane is the line that begins, "They fixed their kid..." Because, clearly, people with disabilities are broken. Thanks, Jenny.

[flameprincess]

Pushing aside the mentalness of being an Indigo Mother/Crystal Child (I don't even... I just don't) and the confusion of diagnosis, her view that the children need to be fixed just blows my mind. She used to be linked to Autism Speaks and they use denial language like "fix them" as well.

They aren't broken. They are absolutely wonderful people that just see the world differently and sometimes the world they see is a scary place. Hell, sometimes when I look at the world it's a scary place. How does any mother look at their child and decide they are broken?