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Savage on autism: "A fraud, a racket. ... In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out"

"Now, the illness du jour is autism. You know what autism is? I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out. That's what autism is.

What do you mean they scream and they're silent? They don't have a father around to tell them, "Don't act like a moron. You'll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don't sit there crying and screaming, idiot."

Autism -- everybody has an illness. If I behaved like a fool, my father called me a fool. And he said to me, "Don't behave like a fool." The worst thing he said -- "Don't behave like a fool. Don't be anybody's dummy. Don't sound like an idiot. Don't act like a girl. Don't cry." That's what I was raised with. That's what you should raise your children with. Stop with the sensitivity training. You're turning your son into a girl, and you're turning your nation into a nation of losers and beaten men. That's why we have the politicians we have."


Wow. Words come to mind. None of which I would say around my daughter, and some of which are too foul for this language.

Date: 2008-07-18 11:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] silkensteel.livejournal.com
OK, first the "contraception is abortion" thing hits the news, now this.

I really, really smell a red herring. Something somewhere is happening and distractions are getting thick. Ignore shit like this and look at REAL news.

Date: 2008-07-19 12:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tepintzin.livejournal.com
Certain forms of autism have become "disease of the week". Asperger's is the new excuse for being an asshole. Full-blown autism on the other hand is very real; been reading about it since the 70s.

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