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?