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chaoticidealism

Remembering the Dead

Nov 08, 2014 10:48

Today I added the 200th memorial page to the autism memorial site. The most recent death was on Monday. We lost a little boy named London McCabe, a six-year-old iPad afficionado with a cute smile. His mother threw him off a bridge after blogging about how hard it was to raise an autistic child and asking her readers for money ( Read more... )

evil, disability rights, autism advocacy

Comments 6

nightengalesknd November 9 2014, 01:23:54 UTC

Thank you for maintaining the site.

anonymous November 9 2014, 05:03:21 UTC

xoxo

An Australian case (Rhett's syndrome) anonymous November 9 2014, 09:56:15 UTC

Thank you for putting this together. I had wondered if you had the Australian case of the Rhett Syndrome girl, but it turns out you not only have the case, you even had her name (Maia Comas). I followed that case in the newspaper here when it was being investigated - it is the case that sticks in my mind because it was local.

Lrom Angel The Alien anonymous November 16 2014, 17:06:43 UTC

This reminds me of a website I used to keep... it was a child abuse memorial for kids who had died from abuse. People used to sometimes think I was morbid for wanting to read about so many sad stories... but I sort of felt like I was giving them some sort of justice by researching their stories and adding them to my website... like i was helping to make sure they didn't just fade away. But sometimes it was hard to decide who to include. For instance, if a parent accidentally ran over his child while backing out of the driveway, that isn't abuse, but if the father was drunk when he did it, could that count as neglect? Some family members of kids even emailed me, threatening to sue me, because they still believed the abuser was innocent.

Thank you anonymous December 2 2014, 07:19:49 UTC

Thank you for this. I admire your dedication and detachment, as I am always an emotional wreck while reading these cases. I force myself to read them in hopes that I can be more aware of dangers and better parent my autistic son and look out for his friends and classmates. I appreciate your insight on your blog. So often you put into words what I find so difficult to express. Just an all around thank you. Take care.