Kathie Lee vs. autistic kid

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KLG was probably one those 'popular girls' who emotionally bullied those who were considered low status when she herself was in middle school and high school. Did you see how she asked Zach if the other kids gave him a hard time for hanging out with "defective freak (in KLG's eyes)?

I put far more blame on KLG than on Zach's mom. Zach's mom probably just thought he was telling a story and KLG is the one who blew it out of proportion. Zach sounds like a decent kid and I hope Zach and Graham kept their friendship going strong after that humiliating episode (Although I'm sure it made things awkward for a while).

Sickening, to me anyway, and that includes the horrendously corny and cringeworthy piece of dross they dared to call a song.
They seem to imply that it is some great achievement to approach and befriend someone with autism...more of a great achievement to put up with their patronising and assuming ways.

CRINGE.

WTF.

Horrendously, shockingly, painfully bad. That song was in such bad taste it was insane. I knew this was going to be bad as soon as the video loaded and indicated they were somehow going to drag out this 'story' to 12 minutes. Urgh.... *facepalm*

When they first started reading off the story, it just seemed like a huge pity party for the autistic boy. As in the guy gets "points" for being so charitable. It just degradable to our worth.

That clip is so wrong in so many ways I don't know what to start hating on first. Well, I guess the first bad thing was how Kathie and the other adults seemed to only praise Zach, how he's a role model just because he befriended Graham. Kathie gave Zach a pair of Cubs tickets plus a basket of other goodies, and then asked Zach what he was planning on majoring in college and how his dating situation was going. What gift did Kathie give Graham? The other Cubs ticket presumably, but I never saw him getting to hold it. Kathie never once asked if Graham was dating (even if that were to be too personal a question), never asked about his future ambitions. And that song... f***ing horrid, s*** lyrics that could've been made up on the spot and the too-high pitched voice had me wishing I'd drowned her voice out with a bottle of vodka. The part that made me the angriest was when Graham was asked what he thought of the song. When he told everyone he thought the song was sad, they laughed. As I watched Kathie laugh at Graham's comment for the third time (I replayed that part twice), on the third time I imagined Graham walking up to Kathie Lee Gifford and saying, "I'm not laughing , b***h" and doing a huge Mortal Kombat-style Brutality on her.

"Ehsperger's Syndrome to be exeeehct."

Okay I'll just skip her and watch the interview.

They're treating him like a baby...

Oh my gosh, iI just saw the kathie lee video. I'm the mother of an aspie and it would be a cold day in hell before I'd subject him to that nonsense. They acted like the kid had three heads. What idiots. I had to shut the song off because it just infuriated me!

On another subject, I have a question for any one who could help me. My son is 13 and sometimes has trouble controlling his "tv talk." I know it's a stim for him and I'm trying to respect that sometimes he needs this outlet, but it's difficult because sometimes it drives the family crazy. I've told him he can do it as much as he wants in his room but not so much when the family is trying to have time together, like at the dinner table or playing a game, etc. I want him to learn that it's important for all of us to respect each other's needs so that he'll have an easier time in school and throughout life.

Thanks!

My son isn't disabled. Asperger's is his special gift from God.

Isn't it interesting how the Normie athlete gets all the nice gifts and praise, then the Autie boy gets a sh***y song about how worthless he is, sung by a washed-up b***h who's had way too much Botox for her own good and an equally hideous Amazonian He-Woman? The whole program had this "I can't believe this amazing God-amongst-men athlete is actually downgrading himself to be seen in public with this freak" vibe about it.

I couldn't even finish watching that. My cat began furiously scratching on his scratching post in protest to the song, so I took it as a sign to turn it off and avoid doing any more damage due to my morbid curiosity to see beyond that song.