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Chp 13: MODERN LEPROSY

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Why do I think I know where this chapter is going?

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Invited to a birthday party, everyone is excited... and she wonders if she should tranquilize her son.

She gives TRANQUILIZERS TO HER 4 YEAR OLD?

What. The. Actual. Fvck.?

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They put Zack in an elevator. He panics and bites his mother.

You have to understand that this kid is kept in the basement of their home doing ABA drills for 40 hours a week. He's locked into his room at night and drugged.

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Has he ever been in an elevator? Did they bother to talk to him about it?

You know? I'm not a violent person, I'm really not, but I find myself cheering Zack on every time he bites his torturer.

I guess that makes me a bad person.

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Zack has a meltdown probably combined with a panic attack at the confinement.

Considering how little he gets out of his house, how often he's confined and locked up, it sounds a helluva lot like a PTSD reaction. In a 4 year old.

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He slams his head into the walls, his parents don't stop him. They glare at each other instead.

You know, if I could point to a manual of everything NOT to do with an autistic kid? This would basically be it.

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Please let that sink in. An autistic 4 year old has a SEVERE PTSD reaction to being confined in an elevator.

That's not autism's fault. That's from abuse.

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she keeps using the word perseverate in regards to Zack's behavior.

This woman knows NOTHING about autism. NOTHING.

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"I just hope my stunned visage is sufficient to communicate my deep regret for bringing Zack here in the first place. for overestimating Zack's ability to attend a single birthday party like a normal child."

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I hate this woman with every fiber of my being.

She confines and abuses her 4 year old, then expects him to be able to function even close to 'normally'.

My kids go to birthday parties just fine.

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but then... they haven't been abused, confined, drugged and tortured in the name of 'helping' them.

Fvck ABA. My gods. It's horrifying.

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She blathers for two pages about herself. Gods. YUCK.

"Deep down inside, this child is slowly killing me."

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Awww. Poor little pumpkin. The kid you've tortured for years is 'killing you'.

Fvck you.

She is so wrapped up in other people's perceptions. Jesus.

Shouldn't she be more concerned about, I dunno... HER KID?

But no. That's not how this reads at all. I was rather hoping this book would be different. NOPE.

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Trigger warning on the burning times. She goes into loving detail on historical autistics, likening us to demons, witches and worse.

She touts the fairy stories.

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It's historical fact. The 'changeling' children were often downs or autistic kids left out to die of exposure.

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Blathering about the rise in autism confirmations, and the causes. Then.

"I'm as mystified and haunted by my son's volatile unpredictability as anyone, more so."

Seriously? I'm not.

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Wrap of one of the most disgusting chapters in the book. Jesus. they just keep getting worse.

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