Live tweeting your son's hours-long meltdown
Somebody on another autism blog posted this article:
http://www.ptbocanada.com/journal/2015/3/7/peterborough-couple-live-tweet-a-severe-meltdown-from-their-autistic-child
The blog that linked to this was pretty angry over the parents' actions, and it's easy to see why. Autistic kids nowadays are apt to be controlled with brute force and/or sensory deprivations like "time out rooms". When those fail, the caregivers are at a loss. The only thing left is to lock themselves in a bedroom while the kid demolishes the house. The parents feel vindicated by the support they get online. Then, apparently, comes the GoFundMe accounts to fix the damage to the house. Finally, the parent starts making plans to kill in order to escape a trap that wouldn't exist if only the parents had taught their kid how to cope with meltdowns as a toddler.
Clearly, more research is needed to figure out how to control kids besides sitting on them until they are exhausted or locking them in the hall closet. But the main objection seems to be that parents are making private moments public. How will their kid feel at age 40 with all this stuff about how horrible they are forever online? How will autistics react to being called monsters by everyday people who only know of autism from "warrior mothers" who view autism and autistics as an enemy army to be defeated?
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
A few issues and a different focus...
I haven't written in six months, maybe more. During that time, I got kicked off the net's biggest survival forum, actually more like harassed until I had to leave, simply because one poster thought I was "whining", and suddenly everybody rallied around him and started bashing me. The guy who started it has followed me from forum to forum since around 2009 or 2010, simply to bash me. He even convinced one forum owner to make him a mod simply so he could ban me. When I started posting on survival forums, I was in a really bad place personally, and did stuff I regret and angered people. But to hold a grudge like that for six years is unreasonable imo.
So, this blog will no longer have a survival component. I am a far inferior blogger on survival topics to top dogs like Fernando Aguirre, whose themodernsurvivalist.com blog should be in everybody's bookmarks, and his books in every bookcase. Instead, I will focus primarily on autism and maybe throw in a little politics.
As you may be aware, parents of autistic kids are getting attention for themselves by doing things like live tweeting meltdowns and posting videos of their kid's meltdowns. Specifically, a couple in Canada live tweeted a meltdown that went for HOURS. Did they try helping their son? Nope, they were locked in their bedroom tweeting how awful their son is. I will address this specific case in another post.
I haven't written in six months, maybe more. During that time, I got kicked off the net's biggest survival forum, actually more like harassed until I had to leave, simply because one poster thought I was "whining", and suddenly everybody rallied around him and started bashing me. The guy who started it has followed me from forum to forum since around 2009 or 2010, simply to bash me. He even convinced one forum owner to make him a mod simply so he could ban me. When I started posting on survival forums, I was in a really bad place personally, and did stuff I regret and angered people. But to hold a grudge like that for six years is unreasonable imo.
So, this blog will no longer have a survival component. I am a far inferior blogger on survival topics to top dogs like Fernando Aguirre, whose themodernsurvivalist.com blog should be in everybody's bookmarks, and his books in every bookcase. Instead, I will focus primarily on autism and maybe throw in a little politics.
As you may be aware, parents of autistic kids are getting attention for themselves by doing things like live tweeting meltdowns and posting videos of their kid's meltdowns. Specifically, a couple in Canada live tweeted a meltdown that went for HOURS. Did they try helping their son? Nope, they were locked in their bedroom tweeting how awful their son is. I will address this specific case in another post.
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