A 17 year old autistic girl who went missing in St. Paul Minnesota has been found safe in Eagan Thursday morning about 24 hours after she left her home early Wednesday. The police do not know where the young woman stayed over night. Kim Stagliano at Age of Autism blogged this story under the appropriately sarcastic title More Joy of Autism: Another Lost Child.
I too find it difficult, OK impossible, to refrain from sarcasm, and other negative forms of expression, when mentioning the "Joy of Autism" nonsense promoted by Estee Klar-Wolfond and other bloggers who argue that autism, a neurological disorder, should be celebrated. That a parent can celebrate the fact that their child has a neurological disorder that will impair and restrict his or her life is beyond my comprehension. I have written on this subject several times including in Joy of Conor, Why I Find No Joy In Autism - Biting and Other Self Injurious Behavior, and Autism Reality On The Road . Conor has gone missing in the past and when it happened it terrified me and each story of a missing autistic person hits me hard in the gut. He has injured himself with biting and on occasion his mother with hair pulling. These are not events to celebrate.
I find great joy in Conor, my buddy forever, but not in the autistic disorder which limits his life experiences so drastically. I will never surrender to the muddled thinking that would have me confuse joy in my son with joy in the autistic disorder which marks his life so seriously.
I am happy that the 17 year old in Minnesota was found safe.
I too find it difficult, OK impossible, to refrain from sarcasm, and other negative forms of expression, when mentioning the "Joy of Autism" nonsense promoted by Estee Klar-Wolfond and other bloggers who argue that autism, a neurological disorder, should be celebrated. That a parent can celebrate the fact that their child has a neurological disorder that will impair and restrict his or her life is beyond my comprehension. I have written on this subject several times including in Joy of Conor, Why I Find No Joy In Autism - Biting and Other Self Injurious Behavior, and Autism Reality On The Road . Conor has gone missing in the past and when it happened it terrified me and each story of a missing autistic person hits me hard in the gut. He has injured himself with biting and on occasion his mother with hair pulling. These are not events to celebrate.
I find great joy in Conor, my buddy forever, but not in the autistic disorder which limits his life experiences so drastically. I will never surrender to the muddled thinking that would have me confuse joy in my son with joy in the autistic disorder which marks his life so seriously.
I am happy that the 17 year old in Minnesota was found safe.
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