Nor am I a “hostage”. Calling children who have psychiatric and neurobehavioral disorders “hostages” is insulting and offensive. Like Katherine, I have to wonder what the hell they were thinking. This ad is utterly offensive. It emphasizes all the negative, none of the positive. My first thought was that the NYU Child Study Center had [...]
While I was watching my beautiful 13-year old girl dance last Friday, the Megan Meier story hit the Internet. Hard. It hit me hard, too. Right in the gut, because I walked in that 13-year old’s ADHD depressed shoes many years ago and could feel what she felt, just reading the third-hand accounts. Long story [...]
I’m sorry, but I would never do this, no matter how much I wanted to support the Autism Network. For starters, it would completely embarrass all of my kids, no matter what their age. And second, it reminds me of those awful bumper stickers about “my child being student of the month”, etc. in reverse. [...]