tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post8030641838981933141..comments2024-03-14T18:26:18.208-07:00Comments on autism's gadfly: More media attention to autistic adults in the future?jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14972394536850151087noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-83728520187703425082012-01-17T08:11:27.934-08:002012-01-17T08:11:27.934-08:00Jonathan and Farmwife
If both of you want to get ...Jonathan and Farmwife<br /><br />If both of you want to get what you want you have to challenge some people's beliefs like this positive attitude nonsense. <br /><br />Jonathan, I was doing a job one time setting up computers at a public school. Guess what I saw in one of the classrooms. I saw a poster that had a phrase and it said "your attitude is more important than the facts." <br /><br />This is completely beyond autism. Those who believe this and teach this deny objective reality itself. <br /><br />This whole country is in major trouble my friend. We as a nation are screwed. Look around you. Our country is disintegrating. More and more people can't obtain jobs. Stores are closing more and more. <br /><br />Anyone who says these things is chastized that they're whining and complaining. In the minds of some people you would be considered as having a sense of entitlement. If our free enterprise system has worked so well then why is our economy in such shambles and why has the free enterprise system produced quackery products? Why is it socially unacceptable to challenge what is believed in any such way? Why are more homeless people popping up? <br /><br />Maybe our free-enterprise system is not quite as bad as marxism/lennism but why can't it still be pretty bad? <br /><br />There are those who say we should just appreciate what I have. There are those who say we should be grateful. I could end up on the streets at any time. It could end up where I end up like the starving children in Africa. Has anyone ever said this to you in your everday life? Do you not see that something is rotten in the state of Denmarck?A better future for allhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03815949082061415658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-77740816959182775672012-01-05T04:56:53.535-08:002012-01-05T04:56:53.535-08:00"There are 3 teens/adults on Autism-hub who h..."There are 3 teens/adults on Autism-hub who have had years of ABA... all 3 are high behavioural and with significant challenges."<br /><br />Yeah, and all three made up their stories. They're kids with identity problems, not autism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-1169373374786029982012-01-04T10:30:34.295-08:002012-01-04T10:30:34.295-08:00There are 3 teens/adults on Autism-hub who have ha...There are 3 teens/adults on Autism-hub who have had years of ABA... all 3 are high behavioural and with significant challenges. ABA here would have removed them from their therapy long ago and claimed they were "uneducatable". They would have been tossed into an ASD classroom and babysat with regular suspensions.<br /><br />ABA doesn't teach, it trains. You can use ABA to teach but it takes a lot of time and effort of which school's and parents don't wish to make the time or effort. Parent's get beaten down to where they actually have to ask - as Susan did and I posted twice - about presuming whether or not her son understood her. That is inexcusable. NOT, that Susan had to ask, but that the system put her in a position where she didn't know the answer.<br /><br />Truth is, there is no answers. When do you start, who do you treat, who do you try to educate, is it worth it since in the end my Russ will still end up in care.... Am I now being cruel to give him the world only to have it taken away as an adult?? So how much money should be spent on long term care vs therapy for toddlers. As one coming into teenage years I'm hoping they start moving some of that preschool money.... and the more they just tossed at it... into long term care.<br /><br />As a parent, I firmly believe we owe it to them to try. As a parent, we need to get rid of the "one size fits all" therapies. As a parent, we need to decide that we are going to presume everyone can learn, until we can prove otherwise.<br /><br />I understand and sympathise with the lack of funding, the lack of resources, the lack of trained professionals (although I advoid them now b/c they truly know less than I do). <br /><br />Anon is correct.... the only one's benefitting from these therapy programs are the practitioners... and they're making lots of money on the autism gravy train and in the end... those with autism aren't getting what they need most.. supports - respite, short/long term care.<br /><br />It's a be damned if you do... problem.farmwifetwohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02680758336779501712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-88536894496423486942012-01-02T16:46:36.675-08:002012-01-02T16:46:36.675-08:00Honestly, the reality is sad. Thousands upon thous...Honestly, the reality is sad. Thousands upon thousands of dollars are handed to centers, such as The May Institute where Senator's son went, by school districts in order to fulfill the requirements of IDEA, however the intervention is called ABA but it is truly crap. Ask many parents visiting it today. Every parent I talk to who goes there for a tour rejects that place after seeing it. It's the same for other kids and other centers. Full of bullshit promises and bad therapy. These centers do some version of crap watered down ABA and the kids seem no further along at age 22 than they were when they were five years old. Ten year olds still wetting their pants, attacking people, no communication and so on. The gut wrenching part is the autistic person is the one who gets the short end of the stick.<br /><br />It appears that the only people benefitting from autism are the people looking to make money off these interventions which would be fine if they could actually produce some results.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com