Comments on: Karen McCarron, Alison Tepper Singer, and misplaced compassion

By: Rodentfancy - Representing Autism: Culture, Narrative, Fascination

Rodentfancy - Representing Autism: Culture, Narrative, Fascination — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:43:21 +0000

[...] interview in the film that drew significant controversy was that of a mother describing that she did not kill her autistic daughter only for the sake of [...]

By: Benedetta Stilwell

Benedetta Stilwell — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:11:32 +0000

I am 52 years old, and over the years I have tragically found out a few things that I don’t understand why the medical community or government can’t figure out too. My son has autism, and epilepsy, my husband had a mitrochondrial disorder not inherited but environmental induced (according to Emory clinic in 1990)now it has turned into something else that is an autoimmune disease, maybe of the connective tissures or blood vessels. My daughter had kawasakis disease at two years old and now she is 28 and her doctor has pointed her toward a rheumatologist. She takes medicine for depression and for attention deficiet but she is top of her class and has a double major biology and nursing.(and she can spell deficit) We also have two identical twin nephews with autism, they recently both had a rash on their stomachs (indication of vasculitis) What do they all have in common besides genes, and probably vasculitis? A DPT shot that is what! Except for my husband, he reacted right away to a tetanus shot, and three years later the medical community gave him another one- then he found himself at Emory Clinic. THE DPT SHOT is diptheria, whooping cough and tetantus and these are not put together randomly, they have similiar antigens : proteins from the bacteria that our immune system recognizes and then responds to by producing stuff to destroy them. Vasculitis is what I think the whole thing is. Inflamation of the blood vessels. Either of the brain, the heart, the stomach which ever blood vessels are involved. Inflamed by a vaccine. Want More proof MY son reacted to his third DPT shot six hours after he received it and it was not the first time he reacted to one, he reacted to his second one too but not horrific like his third. His third was a stroke, and if I had not been watching his every breath I would have missed that thirty minutes he was in distress.I would like to thank Dr. Stanly Block for his advice and his bulling that destroyed my child’s life. One more thing in 2003 my son was finally dignosed with epilepsy he was 17, and I knew it for YEARS! What gave it away was his falling down, jerking- having seizures. Once again the medical community flunked and it took them 17 years to get it right. The doctor finally tried to put him on DEPOKOTE the same stuff John Trovolti’s son was on. I refused, I had had enough, I stood up to the Doctor-God and followed my instinct. We came home with no seizure medicine and my husband went ballistic, kepted asking me why. I told my husband when his mother went on Depokote I noticed she became worse and died. He went to the computer looked up his mitrochondrial disorder called oxidation phosalation(spelling is wrong) and it said depokote was a bad thing for this disease. My son is now on Keppra and he is fine, no seizures and he has his driver liscense and he is going to a small community college and passing (barely and with my help) and he is funny, but very quiet and of course no social butterfly. Too much information you say, not good at spelling too you say, so maybe I am a looney. That may be but I have lived it and so that is how it is. I do not want anyone to follow in my shoes.

By: Benedetta Stilwell

Benedetta Stilwell — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:24:14 +0000

No one has any comment since a year and a half ago? Did you all not hear that Singer betrayed the autism speaks and all of us that have autism children or are autistic. No one heard about it?

By: Daughter of the Ring of Fire » Blog Archive » The Painful Egocentricity of the Center

Sat, 17 May 2008 00:46:18 +0000

[...] seen are pushed lower in the pyramid. It is the same phenomenon that leads to misplaced compassion when it comes to autistic children and their (apparently) neurotypical families and that makes it so easy for white people to dismiss racism that isn’t explicit. Appearing [...]

By: Typhanee’s Rhetorically Rabid Reflections » Blog Archive » Start Here

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:55:41 +0000

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By: The Screen is the Retina of the Mind’s Eye: Videodrome Essay « Sweet Perdition

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:11:24 +0000

[...] the reality TV craze. And, frankly, I think he was saying something about Autism Speaks and their notorious Autism Every Day video, [...]

By: Daughter of the Ring of Fire - Why I Can’t Vote for Senator Clinton

Daughter of the Ring of Fire - Why I Can’t Vote for Senator Clinton — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:13:19 +0000

[...] terribly misnamed, as the group actually silences autistics. Among its leadership is a woman who is perfectly happy to talk about her wish to kill herself and her autistic daughter, right in front of … in a video produced by Autism Speaks that contains many other flaws. Autism Speaks also talks about [...]

By: She “wanted a life without autism”: Karen McCarron’s Confession Can Be Shown

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:33:08 +0000

[...] confession that Dr. Karen McCarron made in a Peoria hospital in May of 2006 has been ruled admissable to use during her trial, the [...]

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:37:01 +0000

I hope Ms. Singer can someday clarify her remarks. Michele, I much appriecate your writing about your impressions here……..and Kassiane too—

By: Michele Purcell

Michele Purcell — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:33:48 +0000

I watched the movie several times, and I don’t think she was giggling about it.. I think she had a thought as a knee-jerk reaction to a very stressful situation and it was something she would have never done, more an expression of her feeling utterly hopeless at the time. That’s just my impression though….