Feeling like you have too much faith in humanity?

[ShaneV]

This should help with that.

http://www.citynews.ca/2013/08/18/famil ... th-autism/

[sleewell]

this cant be real

[Noizemaker]

^^^Yea, seems like a troll to me.

[madryan]

When republicans and word processors collide...

[Lloyd Blankfein]

When republicans and word processors collide...

Except it came from Canada.

[Dave]

I hope that's not real, it's pretty disturbing but reads like a kid wrote it to post on the Internet for lulz.

[Dave]

When republicans and word processors collide...

Give it a rest, dude.

[Lloyd Blankfein]

I hope that's not real, it's pretty disturbing but reads like a kid wrote it to post on the Internet for lulz.

I'd surmise that type of person whom would hold a particular view like we see in this letter, would have the reasoning and writing skills of a child.

[Dave]

Mothers are usually pretty reserved when it comes to stuff like this.

[Yarbicus]

Mothers are usually pretty reserved when it comes to stuff like this.

Not when it comes to their children. I have dealt with similar attitudes and it can be pretty rough. Pretty amazing how thoughtless and selfish people can be. Well...maybe it isn't that hard to believe.

However, I guaran-damn-tee you would rather deal with me than my wife on this subject. I might just tell you to go to Hell but my wife will tear you a new one! We call her "dragon momma".

[Dickarms]

honestly, from what i've seen lately (mainly i think stupidity has been around longer than we think, just that it has so many more easily accessible outlets now) i would not be the least bit surprised if this was 100% legit.

and if so, she deserves so many horrific things done to her face, butthole, and family.

[Dickarms]

nah, only a public hanging can rid the neighborhood of this kind of abject fuckery

[Telephant]

How fucked would it be if this family wrote the letter themselves and is using it to get sympathy fame? y'know, like that kid in a balloon (not really) a few years ago.

[clipless bumper]

I don't know - I think I agree with them.

I mean, this kid is out there 'whaling' - in a suburban neighborhood!!

Have you ever smelled a dead whale?

[JonVengeance]

That letter is pretty disgusting. I read a story that was somewhat similar last week. It was about neighbors threatening legal action against a family who built a handicap ramp for their daughter with Cerebral Palsy because it lowered property values.

http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/NEIGHBORS-WANT-FAMILYS-HANDICAP-RAMP-REMOVED-218930251.html

[Dave]

Mothers are usually pretty reserved when it comes to stuff like this.

Not when it comes to their children. I have dealt with similar attitudes and it can be pretty rough. Pretty amazing how thoughtless and selfish people can be. Well...maybe it isn't that hard to believe.

However, I guaran-damn-tee you would rather deal with me than my wife on this subject. I might just tell you to go to Hell but my wife will tear you a new one! We call her "dragon momma".

I'm sorry to hear that, dude. Really terribly sorry from the bottom of my heart.


Hard to imagine there are parents out there that would sink this low.

[Dave]

That letter is pretty disgusting. I read a story that was somewhat similar last week. It was about neighbors threatening legal action against a family who built a handicap ramp for their daughter with Cerebral Palsy because it lowered property values.

http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/NEIGHBORS-WANT-FAMILYS-HANDICAP-RAMP-REMOVED-218930251.html

I'm glad that has a happy ending. I was worried it would be an hoa with teeth trying to railroad a technicality. The news should post the address of the offended party to notify the rest of the world of their principles.

[Chris Z]

I park in handicapped spaces while handicapped people make their handicapped faces.

[DNW]

That letter is pretty disgusting. I read a story that was somewhat similar last week. It was about neighbors threatening legal action against a family who built a handicap ramp for their daughter with Cerebral Palsy because it lowered property values.

http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/NEIGHBORS-WANT-FAMILYS-HANDICAP-RAMP-REMOVED-218930251.html

I would think the bigger problem for property values would be that anyone moving in would be living amongst a pack of utter cunts.

[Yarbicus]

While I have not doubt that this kind of stuff actually happens, it happens to a lesser extent every day. Last month, we took the kids to see Back to the Future when it was being played in theaters. The theater was PACKED. My oldest and I ended up sitting in front of my wife and daughter (both kids with obvious special needs). In front of us was 20-somethings couple. The guy was clearly trying to impress the girl and, before the movie, kept spouting some of the most pointless trivia you could imagine. Since it was packed AND it was a classic movie, the place was pretty rockin'. About half way through, my daughter starts singing (because that is what she does does). Not loudly, just to herself. Guy in front of me turns around all angry and shushes her dramatically.

I just leaned over real nonchalant and whispered in his ear "Lighten up, big guy. Her ticket cost just as much as yours." Guy left as soon as the credits started without another word.

Yeah, I know, my kids can make noise or kick the back of your seat. I will do everything I can to make sure that they don't bug you (much). BUT they also have every right to experience as much of life as anyone else does.

[Lloyd Blankfein]

While I have not doubt that this kind of stuff actually happens, it happens to a lesser extent every day. Last month, we took the kids to see Back to the Future when it was being played in theaters. The theater was PACKED. My oldest and I ended up sitting in front of my wife and daughter (both kids with obvious special needs). In front of us was 20-somethings couple. The guy was clearly trying to impress the girl and, before the movie, kept spouting some of the most pointless trivia you could imagine. Since it was packed AND it was a classic movie, the place was pretty rockin'. About half way through, my daughter starts singing (because that is what she does does). Not loudly, just to herself. Guy in front of me turns around all angry and shushes her dramatically.

I just leaned over real nonchalant and whispered in his ear "Lighten up, big guy. Her ticket cost just as much as yours." Guy left as soon as the credits started without another word.

Yeah, I know, my kids can make noise or kick the back of your seat. I will do everything I can to make sure that they don't bug you (much). BUT they also have every right to experience as much of life as anyone else does.

I've got quite a bit of experience with an Autistic child (she's not a kid anymore) as well- and will have her as part of my family for the rest of my life.

Some people just do not understand them or their needs. She's in her own world, and only wants to do what's part of her routine. People always say, "why don't you just make her XYZ," of course you and I both know it Jan that easy.

She has to alter her routine on her own accord, how she wants, when she wants. Otherwise, forget about it.

She will parrot songs or movie lines that she likes and there's no two fucks anyone can do about it.

It amazes me that in 2013, people still don't understand or have the willingness to just bend their life a little bit so a child with special needs can just cruise by smoothly. Is it really that much to ask?

[Yarbicus]

While I have not doubt that this kind of stuff actually happens, it happens to a lesser extent every day. Last month, we took the kids to see Back to the Future when it was being played in theaters. The theater was PACKED. My oldest and I ended up sitting in front of my wife and daughter (both kids with obvious special needs). In front of us was 20-somethings couple. The guy was clearly trying to impress the girl and, before the movie, kept spouting some of the most pointless trivia you could imagine. Since it was packed AND it was a classic movie, the place was pretty rockin'. About half way through, my daughter starts singing (because that is what she does does). Not loudly, just to herself. Guy in front of me turns around all angry and shushes her dramatically.

I just leaned over real nonchalant and whispered in his ear "Lighten up, big guy. Her ticket cost just as much as yours." Guy left as soon as the credits started without another word.

Yeah, I know, my kids can make noise or kick the back of your seat. I will do everything I can to make sure that they don't bug you (much). BUT they also have every right to experience as much of life as anyone else does.

I've got quite a bit of experience with an Autistic child (she's not a kid anymore) as well- and will have her as part of my family for the rest of my life.

Some people just do not understand them or their needs. She's in her own world, and only wants to do what's part of her routine. People always say, "why don't you just make her XYZ," of course you and I both know it Jan that easy.

She has to alter her routine on her own accord, how she wants, when she wants. Otherwise, forget about it.

She will parrot songs or movie lines that she likes and there's no two fucks anyone can do about it.

It amazes me that in 2013, people still don't understand or have the willingness to just bend their life a little bit so a child with special needs can just cruise by smoothly. Is it really that much to ask?

[Elessar [Sly]]

It'd be great if she paid lots of other people to behave the same way. An army of whaling, helmet wearing, energy junkies just jumping around and making noise.

[VTM]

When republicans and word processors collide...

[Dickarms]

i admire you guys who care for and love special needs children. i am not that strong, mainly because i cant get to the reconciliation stage where its like, "hey, this is how it is. lets work with it and give them the best life possible". i cant get past having my heart completely broken every time i meet a special needs person, child or not. lump in my throat even while i read and write this. like, i can work through it, and will at every chance i get do anything i can to help, and when they smile its everything, and im happy for them, but i still die inside a little bit.

which is why i couldnt do anything witty, cunning, or patient with this woman as retribution i would actually punch her in the mouth.