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Does anyone get REALLY annoyed when someone tells you about something and Autistic child does and pawns it off as though this reflects everyone with autism? I remember hearing from my job coach about an Autistic child who caught a m***et (little person? Not sure how to conjugate the noun here) census worker and kept him in the closet, then called his mom up to say, "I caught the gnome! I caught the gnome!" On the surface, this seems kind of cute, actually (were it not for the fact that someone was actually trapped in a closet. But then she had to go ahead and say, "OOH! You should post this on WrongPlanet!" WTF? I mean, yes it's amusing, but I think this site is to be used to accentuate the positives of our disability, not our negatives--at least as far as news articles are concerned.

Thoughts?

I heard a guy tell this story and he swore it was someone who belonged to his wife's friend's church (or something). Now I'm wondering if it isn't urban myth.

Nope, this actually happened in Amityville as far as I can tell.

So it's a census-taker now?

The times, they are a changin', and so are the urban legends: http://www.snopes.com/embarrass/mistaken/troll.asp