So Denis Leary issues an apology—what if he’d just not said a word about autism in the first place?
And allow me to air a frustration: Leary’s gotten quite a lot of attention (however negative) for his comments and become a subject of discussion in the autism community. But I think I’d prefer to spend the time talking about autistic persons, rather than the ultra-uninformed mouthings of the likes of Leary. ‘Nuff said!

From the October 28th Boston Herald:
“I have nothing but admiration and sympathy for the people I know who are raising children with autism. In fact, they were the inspiration for the chapter I wrote about the subject,” the Worcester native and author of the provocative forthcoming book “Why We Suck” said in a statement to the Herald.
“To them – and to all parents of children with autism – I apologize for any pain the out-of-context quotes from my book may have caused.”
Not a complete recantment—-the Boston Herald notes that Leary still said that “‘“taking one or two sentences out of …read more