Dear Abby Letter

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Talk about dodging a bullet. That was the most noncomittal answer ever. It addressed the writers question alone -which, technically, is the entire purpose of the column - but, in avoiding the massive issue it brought up, it is displaying a kind of bias by default.

Way to go Abby - avoiding the hard moral questions just like your momma...

this is the mentality that holds back humanity as a whole.
stuff like this makes me extremely angry, simply because the idiot portrayed is gonna keep being an idiot, influencing the people around her with the vile pungent sorry excuse for brain activity rampant in that empty skull of hers.

It's best to explain to it her before you proceed with or break off the friendship. She is dangerous if she thinks like that. People like her are the reason Autism Speaks exists.

Since this thread was bumped...

That's a smart answer. There's no way of telling what the son's level of functioning is. He may or may not be able to grasp the concept of safe sex. He still lives at home? No one should start procreating until they have the financial and emotional means to support a child.

No doctor can say what kind of life someone is going to have based on a diagnosis. Okay, some conditions are more predictable, but the autism spectrum is too broad to make that kind of generalizations. They say things just to make mom and dad feel better about having a ret*d kid.

As for the wording (having him "fixed"), I often speak like that. I don't see anything wrong with it until people laugh or get theatrically shocked "OMG I can't believe you said that?!?!" I like being funny, so I pretend it was planned

That is really twisted. SPEECHLESS should have smacked her 'friend' upside the head and asked her where she keeps her copy of Mein Kampf

Honestly it just sounds like miscommunication to me. If she describes her son a certain way to her friends, they may think he's never going to be able to have a family.

And I know people get shivers at the "E-word", I know I get them. But it makes sense to make sure those that are truly not mentally capable do not themselves breed. If you are mentally disabled, you're not going to be able to care for another human being. That being said, we should be very, very, very careful not to allow the government to advocate for sterilization, or to allow family to force permanent sterilizations on those who aren't fully disabled. (Frankly, if you're mentally capable enough to understand and say you don't want it, they shouldn't be allowed to make you)

Well said, both of you.



Also, very well said. I would have done the same, and smacked her in the face with her copy of Mein Kampf.