Mourning Ulysses

As I said in my last post, I returned to Toronto to more disturbing news reports, primarily the one by Margaret Wente in the Globe and Mail and how she portrayed the autistic person -- a person doomed to a life-sentence of head-banging and screaming. Every time someone's face frowns at my son when I mention autism, when someone says "I'm sorry" when I tell them that Adam is autistic, I blame news reporters like Wente who neglect to do their research and have never met the likes of my son Adam, or do not make the attempt to speak to the many adult autistics living in Canada today.

I am horrified that nearly every couple of months, there is another story, another murder. And what do we hear in the media of it? Will the media cover the connection between pejorative commnetary about autistic people, the constant disrespectful misrepresentation of the autistic person and these murders? If epidemic innuendo could stop, if parents, autistic people, scientists could work together without prejudice, if we could respect every autistic person....if only....