Family receives hate filled letter directed at their autistic son

[photon]

Originally Posted by ken0042

But by creating a hate filled letter that is sure to make the news, all sorts of agencies and offers for support are likely to come knocking on the parent's door.

Maybe, if they have access to support though then this being on the news isn't going to change that though. The amount of leeway or flexibility these agencies have seems to be going down, not up (at least in my experience in Alberta anyway). Maybe they're trying to get the parents to access support they currently aren't? Because it really does seem over the top, but I wouldn't be shocked if it was honest as well, I've talked to some really really nasty people that hold terrible views of people with a disability.

I have a non-verbal autistic kid on our street and I am glad I can hear him a block away, then I know I need to go out and keep an eye on my kid since the two of them are like oil and water.. actually more like sodium and water. Kaboom!

[Flames_Gimp]

brutal letter!

[trackercowe]

Originally Posted by puckluck2

Don't really believe stories like this.

Sorry for asking, but what exactly comes off us non-believable from the letter? Sort of hard to think up an argument that entails anything other than what we are led to believe, unless it's all a joke, or the mother herself wrote it for some insane reason. But I just don't see how it's not "believable".

[MRCboicgy]

Originally Posted by WhiteTiger

Wow, that seems like a pretty extremely passive-aggressive way of dealing with it.

Which makes it even more Canadian, sadly

[Southside]

Did the poster perhaps mean he can't believe such ignorance? Choosing not to believe - head in sand.

[krazycanuck]

Terrible stuff. Makes me sad that anyone would think of another human in this way. I do get a feeling however that the "concerned mother" is really 2 or 3 bored teenagers

[Daradon]

Originally Posted by ken0042

I almost wonder if the author really isn't that stupid. Hear me out for a sec......

She has an issue with the noise that the kid makes outside. I'm guessing some sort of screaming or wailing outside of his control. Now if the lady who had written the letter had asked the parent politely if there was something that could be done for the sake of the neighbourhood; she likely would have been told no; as the kid has issues.

But by creating a hate filled letter that is sure to make the news, all sorts of agencies and offers for support are likely to come knocking on the parent's door.

Wish I had that kind of faith in human nature...

Unfortunately stuff like this does happen. There was that letter directed to that gay couple a few weeks back.

Wasn't that in the GTA too? What's going on over there? Rob Ford's charm must be infecting others.

[ranchlandsselling]

I didn't actually notice the colour of the paper but as I read the text I thought to myself 100% that's a woman writing. I guess it was 50/50 I was right.

Anyway, back on topic.

Stupid BITCH

[CaptainCrunch]

I've said it before and I've said it again. At the heart of every human being there's a jerk just looking for ways to get out.

You would hope that Karma would strike back at this woman.

Someone that mean will eventually be identified when she brags to friends about the attention her letter is getting.

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

That is a pretty awful letter - I can sort of understand both sides as the kid is obviously severely autistic and quite loud with the favourite activity being bouncing outside on a trampoline yelling... that would be grating, particularly over a long period of time. That being said there are obviously better methods of handling the situation than calling for the kid to be murdered (essentially what that letter was suggesting).

Actually it wouldn't surprise me if the person writing the letter had mental health issues as well.

[dammage79]

Wasn't there a thread or a gear grinder recently almost identical to this story? Except the child in the posters thread was screaming nickleback all day out of his window? Eerily similar story's. And no I am not implying that this poster would be the writer of this letter and so on and so forth. Either way, incredibly ignorant and downright despicable letter.

Kind of hoping this person gets discovered and everyone of the family gets to line up and give her a punch to the boob or throat.

[OffsideSpecialist]

This has been going around on my Facebook for days. I guess it was sent to a family in Newcastle, and with that being near my hometown a lot of my old friends are livid, understandably. Terribly upsetting that someone would show that kind of attitude.

[STeeLy]

Originally Posted by photon

Maybe, if they have access to support though then this being on the news isn't going to change that though. The amount of leeway or flexibility these agencies have seems to be going down, not up (at least in my experience in Alberta anyway). Maybe they're trying to get the parents to access support they currently aren't? Because it really does seem over the top, but I wouldn't be shocked if it was honest as well, I've talked to some really really nasty people that hold terrible views of people with a disability.

Unfortunately, and I could be absolutely wrong, but the support for Autism in Ontario is very low, and there's a huge wait list for government support services, at least from what I heard from a professor

[The Goon]

Almost as bad as the intent of the letter is the overuse of exclamation points.

[burn_this_city]

One can only hope that the author of the letter has some life altering experience that gives them some perspective on life. I can't imagine how difficult it would be to have a handicapped child. Worst part in all this, it wouldn't surprise me if this woman is teaching her children that people with disabilities are inferior and to be mocked and ridiculed.

[Bigtime]

So where are the internet detectives at in tracking down the writer of the letter?

They are usually pretty good at stuff like this.

[Devils'Advocate]

Meh. There are stupid people out there. There are still people in the KKK. There are still skinhead nazis. I am not going to get all out of sorts over one isolated incident.

I think what Steely mentioned deserves far more of our attention. Funding for family support for autistic children is SEVERELY underfunded. A colleague of mine, also in IT, is married to someone else in IT, so they both make good salaries and they are going broke paying for their child's care. She said she feels fortunate that they HAVE jobs to pay for the care.. Her sympathy goes out to low income families that can't afford support. It's very frustrating for parents who have a child in desperate need of help and not being able to provide that care.

[TheGrimm]

Originally Posted by dammage79

Wasn't there a thread or a gear grinder recently almost identical to this story? Except the child in the posters thread was screaming nickleback all day out of his window?

To the untrained ear, they sound eerily similar.

[taco.vidal]

-I think that the letter writer has their own mental issues they need to deal with.
-Or there is more to this story and the real story is different from what the family is telling us. I wouldn't want to publicly speculate but this seems like a story the media ran with without much background work.

[manwiches]

This is really sad.