RE: autism benefit program on comedy channel tonight

totally agree wrote:

What does any of this have to do with police? Repeating things under your breath, failing to understand respect, and making poor eye contact are not illegal. Police should not be bothering anyone over these things.

Police think these all these behaviors are criminal and suspicious and drug related. Autistics can NOT be prosecuted in any courtroom. Period. The paperwork just gets forwarded to the state department of mental health, and then they just give throw it in the trash. Sometimes they inform me, the childs pshchologist, but thats only if you are lucky.

Autistics can NOT and will NEVER be prosecuted in any type of courtroom. Its mental health. The police and judges cant touch them.

Child Psychologist wrote:

Police think these all these behaviors are criminal and suspicious and drug related.

I don't think we're disagreeing that this should not happen. My point is simply that no one should be arrested for acting suspiciously when no crime is being committed. But this isn't a matter of autism specific training. It is a matter of generally teaching police officers not to overreach their boundaries. I don't care if you are autistic or not. You shouldn't have to worry that acting strangely will result in being arrested if you aren't doing anything illegal.

Child Psychologist wrote:

Autistics can NOT and will NEVER be prosecuted in any type of courtroom. Its mental health. The police and judges cant touch them.

This is EXACTLY why police need autism training, so they dont continue to violate the rights of people with disabilies, and waste everyones time. Its just a bunch of waste of time, because it all just gets shoved under the desk anyways.

I think all of the above posters are missing the real point. The point is that police VIOLATE the rights of disabled people because they do not respect the fact that they are disabled/autistic. The VICTIM here is the autistic person. They are the victims of police and this must stop immediately. Seriously, the President needs to pour money into this autism training laws and autism awareness for law enforcement, BEFORE THEY REPAY ANY OF OUR OTHER WAR DEBT.

to what wrote:

Again, what are we donating money to? Did you donate $250 to research? To family support? To lobbying efforts? To some charity's "overhead"? What is this money being donated to?

to what wrote:

No one can answer this? Then why the hell are you giving them money?

Given that no one has been able to explain what they are actually donating to, I am going to assume that everyone who is giving money is just a moron who blindly throws money at "causes" to feel good about themselves.

HERES THE NUMBERS YOU CAN CALL

1-888-866-6269

1-888-too-many

DONATE AND SAVE AN AUTISTIC CHILDS LIFE TONIGHT.

Democrat with an M.D. and Ph.D wrote:

HERES* THE NUMBERS YOU CAN CALL

1-888-866-6269

1-888-too-many

DONATE AND SAVE AN AUTISTIC CHILDS** LIFE TONIGHT.

*Here's

**Child's

I'm surprised you didn't learn how to pluralize words at some point during the many years of school required to earn your M.D. and Ph.D.

a few corrections wrote:

*Here's

**Child's

I'm surprised you didn't learn how to pluralize words at some point during the many years of school required to earn your M.D. and Ph.D.

I'm surprised you didn't learn the difference between plural and possessive adjectives.

teahteshs wrote:

I'm surprised you didn't learn the difference between plural and possessive adjectives.

"Here's" is not possessive. I'm surprised you didn't learn this.

This is great! Over 4.1 million dollars raised so far in 90 minutes!

They brains? Seems like you don't understand much.

So if an autistic person robs a store, the cops should treat him/her differently?

Alice in Dunderland wrote:

So if an autistic person robs a store, the cops should treat him/her differently?

Absolutely. Autistics can NOT even be placed in handcuffs.

The autistic that behaved badly in the store will be given back to his parents (autistics can never and will never have power of attorney as an adult, they cannot aid in their own defense) and the parent will provide extra love and care and positive reinforcement. When an autistic misbehaves, its because their caretaker or someone else gave them negative reinforement. Autistics must only have positive reinforcement. Awards, pats on the back, video games, etc......

Child Psychologist wrote:

Absolutely. Autistics can NOT even be placed in handcuffs.

The autistic that behaved badly in the store will be given back to his parents (autistics can never and will never have power of attorney as an adult, they cannot aid in their own defense) and the parent will provide extra love and care and positive reinforcement. When an autistic misbehaves, its because their caretaker or someone else gave them negative reinforement. Autistics must only have positive reinforcement. Awards, pats on the back, video games, etc......

Your argument seems to support simply killing the little bastards while they're young.

kill it before it grows wrote:

Child Psychologist wrote:

Absolutely. Autistics can NOT even be placed in handcuffs.

The autistic that behaved badly in the store will be given back to his parents (autistics can never and will never have power of attorney as an adult, they cannot aid in their own defense) and the parent will provide extra love and care and positive reinforcement. When an autistic misbehaves, its because their caretaker or someone else gave them negative reinforement. Autistics must only have positive reinforcement. Awards, pats on the back, video games, etc......

Your argument seems to support simply killing the little bastards while they're young.

kill it before it grows wrote:

Child Psychologist wrote:

Absolutely. Autistics can NOT even be placed in handcuffs.

The autistic that behaved badly in the store will be given back to his parents (autistics can never and will never have power of attorney as an adult, they cannot aid in their own defense) and the parent will provide extra love and care and positive reinforcement. When an autistic misbehaves, its because their caretaker or someone else gave them negative reinforement. Autistics must only have positive reinforcement. Awards, pats on the back, video games, etc......

Your argument seems to support simply killing the little bastards while they're young.

It seems as though autism = mentally retarded, by the above description, which I think is absurd. And if I had a loved one killed by an autistic person, I wouldn't give a rat's @ss what their "punishment" issues are, I'd want him/her behind bars for life.

Thanks to the op for bringing this up. My son was diagnosed 6 months ago and we are still devastated. He was fine at 18 months and he just gradually disappeared. It is incredibly stressful for our family. I look at pictures from the time before his symptoms started and it is just crushing. 1 in 88. Something is very wrong.