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11:41pm July 30, 2013

I don’t know if this nausea is because…

Of gastroparesis?

Or of reading this horrible new age crap that’s just… like an overdose of cotton candy. And self-serving as hell.

(It’s all that garbage about generations of special special children, who only decide to get born to special special parents of course. And who are oh so different from real autistic children because they have love and empathy and autistic children don’t.)

Plus by this point it’s really obvious there’s fraud going on at the heart of the stories of how she just happens to find a new variety of special children every few years. So she can give talks and write books and make money.

And it really does feel like an overdose of sugar. Ugh. This is not reality. This is not how spirituality works. This is really really badly written fairy stories for parents who want to believe their children are special.

And they treat actual autistic people in horribly stereotypical ways to prove its not real autism these kids have. (Even though like… as a kid I would have fit one of the descriptions exactly, except for the new age embellishments.  And it’s the one most associated with autism. Because lots of the traits they’re using are autistic traits.  But I couldn’t possibly have been fit into this if my parents had been fool enough to think it of me. Because I say it doesn’t exist, and no real one would.)

Just… this stuff is damaging on levels they don’t even seem to care about. And it’s so very clearly born of some cultural ideas that have a very ugly underbelly, and nobody involved seems to notice?