It's so nice to see the daily mail (yes, THAT daily mail)

Page 1 of 1 [ 10 posts ]

Joined: 7 Nov 2008
Age: 38
Gender: Female
Posts: 890
Location: USA

22 Jul 2009, 2:18 am

Run an article like this.
Mother's son is an aspie, but she's not complaining

I remember them running a lot of articles about how horrible autism is. Then again, I think they were all by the same "journalist"

Sorry if this was already posted somewhere. It's kind of late and I can't sleep so I'm awake but my concentration is way off.

outlier
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 16 Oct 2008
Age: 46
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,429

22 Jul 2009, 3:57 am

The likely explanation for them publishing this is that it allows them to have a dig at Labour.

Ambivalence
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 8 Nov 2008
Age: 46
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,613
Location: Peterlee (for Industry)

22 Jul 2009, 6:48 am

Good grief, I just read the Daily Mail. ^^

_________________
No one has gone missing or died.

The year is still young.

LostAlien
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 3 Feb 2009
Age: 41
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,577

22 Jul 2009, 8:17 am

This article has made me happy. The parent recognises that there are limitations but encorages the childs strenghts and the child has confidence, well, it appears that way to me.

pensieve
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 18 Nov 2008
Age: 38
Gender: Female
Posts: 8,204
Location: Sydney, Australia

23 Jul 2009, 4:34 am

Quote:

Henry was happily playing on the roundabout. He was loving the thrill as it whirled around, gleefully calling out 'Faster! Faster!' as other children pushed with all their might.
But I wasn't smiling. Because I could tell already that one child, a little girl with a mean smirk on her face, had already clocked there was something different about the handsome boy with fair hair who was flapping his hands with excitement. Half under her breath, and to his utter confusion, she started to mimic his giddy shouts and his almost imperceptible lisp.
'You can't talk properly,' she sneered. Henry, instead of ignoring her or insulting her back, asked earnestly and anxiously: 'What aren't I saying properly?' I could have cried for him.
Then she started to kick him. I asked her to stop, and she ignored me. Finally, exasperated, unable to think of a way to get her to desist, Henry grabbed the girl's sunhat from her head and threw it on the grass.
At which point the child's outraged mother came running over, her face contorted in fury, bellowing at him for 'bullying' her darling daughter, who was clearly thrilled at this turn of events.

Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk :I feel such contempt for the spineless MPs who betrayed Gary McKinnon, says mother of 'funny, handsome and brilliant' Asperger's son

Oh dear, I hate people like that. Even if they are little children. What's wrong with some people to just make fun like that?

Quote:

Henry fully expects to go to university, and plans, he says, to 'write books, make films and be on the television when I am grown up'.

That made me cry, I'm trying to do this now.

I glad to see something positive about Asperger's in the media.

_________________
My band photography blog - http://lostthroughthelens.wordpress.com/
My personal blog - http://helptheywantmetosocialise.wordpress.com/

ChangelingGirl
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 18 Sep 2007
Age: 37
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,640
Location: Netherlands

23 Jul 2009, 8:57 am

I like this article, but it's still sad that it has to be so explicitly contrasted with all bad autism stories.

Jenna_Appleseed
Tufted Titmouse

Joined: 3 Nov 2007
Age: 44
Gender: Female
Posts: 44

25 Jul 2009, 4:23 pm

great article, but a real shame she's being used by the Mail.

It's really annoying me now that they seem to be having a pro Aspergers/Gary McKinnon 'crusade' as an excuse to kick Labour and be all patronisinely caring (today's headline's about how he's an "Apergers Victim" ffs. I feel like somebody from The Mail's going to come round and pat me on the head :evil: )

eta: was ranting about this on the phone earlier and got the responce
"you're more human than the humans"
thanks Mum :roll:

JohnneyR
Butterfly

Joined: 30 Jul 2009
Gender: Male
Posts: 13

01 Aug 2009, 8:35 am

Its a stupid paper its so right wing and ignorant its agasint anythin that isn't met by thier standreds in fact thier is only one person that thye aren't agasint and thats george bush and when a papers ideal guy is....... george freakin bush then u know thiers a problem

Michjo
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 4 Mar 2009
Age: 39
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,020
Location: Oxford, UK

01 Aug 2009, 9:29 am

I don't know why people are being so critical of the paper. Every newspaper is the same, they don't publish stories because it's the right thing to do, they publish stories to attack each other and make money.

LadyMacbeth
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 27 May 2007
Age: 36
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,091
Location: In the girls toilets at Hogwarts, washing the blood off my hands.

03 Aug 2009, 9:01 am

At least they mention it. At least AS is getting national coverage.. especially in a good light. So what if it's by The Daily Mail? If it had been The Daily Express other people would comment on this negatively.. all papers have their fans, and the opposite.

_________________
We are the mutant race!! !! Don't look at my eyes, don't look at my face...

Page 1 of 1 [ 10 posts ]

Jump to:

It's so nice to see the daily mail (yes, THAT daily mail) Post Reply New Topic

It's so nice to see the daily mail (yes, THAT daily mail)