I hate it when my husband makes jokes about his life insurance being worth more than he is.
This is why I have a love/hate relationship with the Deep South.
Only the Deep South could so deeply and thoroughly reject an Aspie kid. I realize there are different degrees of Aspie, but it boils down to socially discomfiting and annoying behavior. He was SIX, for christsakes. Everyone is annoying when they're SIX.
OTOH, only in the Deep South would the baby-murdering b***h end up all alone, on death row, while the local paper celebrates the fact that she's going to spend a lot of time being lonely, miserable, and afraid before she's killed.
2008. Hm. That was about the height of the "tragically disabled, incapable of empathy, monsters with a human skin" media circus. Wonder how much that had to do with it. Did they write the kid off because of everything they were told he would always/never be????
He'd be a year younger than my oldest if he'd been allowed to grow up. I wonder who he would have been at 12 or 13.
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"Alas, our dried voices when we whisper together are quiet and meaningless, as wind in dry grass, or rats' feet over broken glass in our dry cellar." --TS Eliot, "The Hollow Men"
11 Jun 2015, 2:14 pm
