Didn't hurt anybody but some vested interests. Didn't hurt them much. Political discourse is already dirt cheap.
Being a spastic geek is now a brain disorder?
Not nearly half as wrong/harmful as the daily comments of Reid/Pelosi/Murtha/Schumer/NYTimes, etc, etc.
Hmmm, that’s interesting.
Only for any poor soul who takes Savage seriously, as if he has anything to add to the discussion.
I've known a couple of autistic kids. One was(is) much older than 2 or 3. To suggest that expenditure of a life is an act...well, you would need to be as goofy as Savage make such a connection.
Still, I doubt Savage believes it. Heck's bells, there was a time some years ago when I listened to Savage because I thought he actually made a scintilla of sense. Then, after the fifth or sixth time he spun into some tangential rant about some bark at the moon, I realized he sells his wares as do professional wrestlers.
Now, I used to enjoy professional wrestling. To this day I think the best of the wrestlers of those days took seriously their duty to be entertainers, salesmen. The marginal wrestlers did little except provide a supporting cast. If Savage took his audience seriously, he might improve at least to the level of supporting cast. After all this time, though, I don't really expect it.
Look up "The Delphi Technique".
Boo-hoo. I have never listened to Savage, I don't even know what his voice sounds like. But this criticism is crybaby stuff. "His science is wrong because he hurt my feelings" should not be coming out of the mouth (or pen) of anyone, let alone a professor (even a "professor of government", which itself is a frightening thing).
If we allowed the purveyors of perpetual victimhood free reign, nobody would be "normal", every last person would have some "condition" attached. "Subclinical" this, "asymptomatic" that, "high functioning", "spectrum disorders", etc etc etc. Legitimate terms, warped beyond any rational medical meaning, are used to feed a spectrum of interests (pharmaceuticals, adult babysitters therapists, folks who just want more handouts, crappy parents looking to shift the blame).
When I was a kid, words like awkward, shy, and withdrawn, or energetic, loud, and troublemaker, were used to describe children now "diagnosed" with autism or ADHD. The supposedly blighted children (by today's standards) are all normal functioning adults today. Hell, I probably would have been labeled autistic because I mixed (informal) sign language and English in near equal proportions until age 4. Is that unusual? YES! Is it a medical condition? Of course not.
If anything, projecting ones own hypochondria is a mental sickness that needs to be addressed.
Savage can say anything he wants. Others are free to whine about what he says, or like I do, ignore him.
Evidently you didn’t listen to what Savage and his guests were talking about. And Media Matters is one of the most dishonest sites on the internet...quite an accomplishment. Most important, if you’re going to be duped by the PC police and Media Matters slime, don’t put the rest of your ignorance on display by concluding that Savage is really a liberal working to give conservatives a bad name. Hagel and McCain have done enough of that for several lifetimes.
(hint)Liberals predominate the medical profession so beware when they suggest your kid needs to be medicated. I would get as many opinions as possible and then some before coming to any conclusions about my kid.
I can only imagine if some of the worlds most productive and smartest people had been told they were not normal and began medication to suppress the undesired 'condition'.
I just think he is a dickhead and his radio show blows. He is the Howard Stern show version of issues oriented talk radio, except that Stern’s show is a little more intellectually oriented. Sorry Savage fans, had to get that off my chest, no offense intended...JFK
Savage should stick to politics, which he knows a lot about, and stay away from autism, which he obviously knows nothing about, despite being right on some superficial political issues regarding it.
For about 8 years I coached soccer at a local parks league.
I’ll never forget one spring when I have about 220 kids and had them all organized into 5 on 5 games with the help of the kids on my team.
I’d walk around and supervise as my kids would instruct and referee. During one game I heard one kid yelling very foul language and blew my whistle and stopped play. I called the foul mouthed kid over and told him NO ONE speaks like that on MY pitch.
His mom came running over and protested that he had Tourhetts.
I told her I didn’t give a damn if he was on fire if he yelled the f bomb again either he or the other 219 kids were off.
I never heard the kid swear again.
I look at pharmacy like i look at the military industrial complex. A lot is necessary, you don’t know if you need it or not until you try it, and there is an underlying profit motive pushing back.
Your position is that because Savage speaks out against a racket that diagnoses kids as mentally ill just to sell medicines he is a child abuser? Do you really expect anyone to take you seriously after you throw out charges like that?
That was my feeling when I first encountered Savage almost ten years ago. He is such an extreme caricature of the angry white male that nobody could actually believe what he says. Besides his background as an academic, it seems to me that his real complaint is rejection by his liberal colleagues because they didn't want another white Jewish male tenured professor.
My spouse was a special ed teacher for 36 years.