I think anyone who harms a child is mentally ill. That doesn't make me angry. It makes me very sad.
What does make me angry is--yes--the response from people outside the situation: Somehow, it's easier for the general public to empathize with a murderer than it is for them to empathize with an autistic.
And comment sections are just the trapped souls of bad people. (Except this one, of course!)
That sucks badly what the mother tried to do there, it sucks badly that people are in sympathy with her, it sucks badly that there is even an excuse offered [major depression].
I just came from the mother's blog. Her last entry was September 3rd and there are 289 comments, much more than the 9 or so that she usually gets.
The lives of we the labeled disabled are worth crap just as soon as "taking care of us" becomes too hard.
What I think is very suspicious about this whole incident is that it happened just after Issy returned from residential treatment where she'd spent the past six months. She went home on 30th August and was attacked on the 3rd September. That's not a lot of time to get so stressed you'd kill an abusive adult, let alone a teenage girl.
Not justifying the attack, of course, but I'd read somewhere that the precipitating incident was that Issy was supposed to get into a special program at school, and the school district had rejected that plan just before the murder/suicide attempt. So it seems like a case of the mother losing hope because services were denied to them.
Not, again, that that makes it A-OK to just up and try to kill your child and yourself. But it seems like the mother lost her shit after her hopes were raised and then dashed, and honestly I feel like maybe the school district and other social services providers involved here bear some of the ethical, if not legal, blame.
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What does make me angry is--yes--the response from people outside the situation: Somehow, it's easier for the general public to empathize with a murderer than it is for them to empathize with an autistic.
And comment sections are just the trapped souls of bad people. (Except this one, of course!)
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That sucks badly what the mother tried to do there, it sucks badly that people are in sympathy with her, it sucks badly that there is even an excuse offered [major depression].
I just came from the mother's blog. Her last entry was September 3rd and there are 289 comments, much more than the 9 or so that she usually gets.
The lives of we the labeled disabled are worth crap just as soon as "taking care of us" becomes too hard.
I want to throw up.
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Not, again, that that makes it A-OK to just up and try to kill your child and yourself. But it seems like the mother lost her shit after her hopes were raised and then dashed, and honestly I feel like maybe the school district and other social services providers involved here bear some of the ethical, if not legal, blame.
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