Posted on 11/28/2016 5:00:51 PM PST by cba123
The mother of an autistic boy claims her son was disqualified from a swimming final because he “swam too fast”.
Rory Logan, nine, was competing in the Special Olympics Regional finals in Bangor, north Wales, and won the 50 metres race in 53.15 seconds – a personal best and smashing his heat time of one minute and three seconds.
However, when it came to the medal ceremony, Rory, from County Antrim, was simply given a ribbon for participating instead of the gold he was expecting.
Now mum Briony claims that officials told her that he didn’t get a medal because he was too fast for the race.
(please see link for full article)
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My best onlinew friend’s son is a high functioning autistic. At 12 years old, he’s a Jazz trumpet whizz. He fronts a band of pro adult musicians, Leads and arranges the music. He’s an amazing kid! When I met him, I could not tell he had any problems at all. Super smart! Just laughs sometimes inappropliantly. Big deal!
Your post is about the most foolish thing that i have ever read on this forum.. And that is saying something.
You should take a few nights off.
Yes, I’ve known some autistic kids and grownups. I think they’re all great.
But you wouldn’t know that from all the liberal attacks on Trump’s grandson or Sarah Palin’s son.
Plus, they probably do think they should be aborted.
These rules speak to the intellectual abilities.
http://resources.specialolympics.org/Topics/General_Rules/Article_02.aspx
“The kid should not be in the competition.”
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Apparently the event organizers thought he should have or he wouldn’t been there. To be given a “participation ribbon” instead of the award he won is a slap in the kid’s face.
And you know this how?
That would be news to my son and all the other kids on the autism spectrum, who compete in Special Olympics.
I do not think I am wrong.
It is for Down Syndrome kids.
Here is a beautiful Special Olympics commercial.
http://www.values.com/inspirational-stories-tv-spots/142-special-athlete
You’re wrong. Just stop digging and move on to another thread.
After reading more about this, he wasn’t disqualified for being autistic, but rather because his time was too fast for the heat he was in. The rules are put in place so everyone can have a chance to win, and to prevent kids from competing against inferior competition. It’s not to determine the best of the best but to allow people with disabilities to compete.
WAKE UP AMERICA...ISLAM IS TRYING TO TAKE OVER OUR COUNTRY FROM WITHIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My friend’s son, at 12 years old, is beyond music college students! He’s amazing!
Hmm, I guess some special olympians are more special than others?
No I am not wrong.
Stop your PC nonsense.
The kid shouldn’t have been competing there, that’s why they did it.
It’s simple, stop playing the victim.
It seems they did not disqualify him for being autistic or anything like that:
“Apparently you can’t be more than 15% faster than the time you swam in your heats just in case you are trying to swim slower in your heat to be placed in a lower division’s final.”
If that is the rule and it applies to everyone, then fair is fair.
Through the Special Olympics?!?
Has nothing to do with being PC.
It has to do with you being wrong, and an asshole.
I’ve been a SO volunteer and coach for almost 20 years, and I know what I’m talking about.
Do you ?
And I’m a lot of things, but a victim isn’t one of them. You should take those couple of nights off and get a grip. You’re embarrassing yourself.
What are you talking about???
Lots of kids on the autism spectrum have physical issues such as hypotonia, apraxia, etc. And many of them of intellectual / communications issues, too.
In “Left-World” their Utopian perfection has no place for the infirm, the elderly, the nonproductive laborer. They live forever in a perpetual youth subsidized by the unenlightened unwashed (necessary evil) masses, after all, someone must carry out the trash and hold the door.
The grandparents of these leftists were the ones praising Hitler’s euthanasia programs (Time Magazine Cover). They were the progressive movement going back to the latter years of Teddy Roosevelt forward. They are on both sides of the isle (anyone who speaks of Bi-Partisanship is in the fold) and their children were the Clinton generation progressive socialists. This group walks hand in hand with the W.E.B. Dubois movement to include the NAACP, Farrakahn, Malcom X, the Black/New Black Panthers, and the BLM movements.
Those desiring to see a color blind society based upon “The content of one’s character and not the color of one’s skin” espoused by George Washington Carver and Dr. King and carried on by his daughter Dr. King, Star Jones, Justice Thomas, are not welcome to the party.
You see, it is not now nor has it ever been about Utopia or Liberty and Justice for all on the left. The Left are a frustrated, unrecognized, unnappreciated Ruling Class desiring an Oligarchy (where they ______ fill in the blank rule). They will climb in bed with any faction that will help them achieve success (power). In order to achieve their ends, they must have Violent overthrow of our government “by any means necessary”.
They will buy it (Soros, Saudis), steal it (vote fraud), they will lie (media propaganda), cause insurrection (violence in the streets), they will support America’s enemies both foreign and domestic (illegal immigration, support of ISIS/ISIL/Iran nuclear deal/ China).
But in the end, we can see the real actor here, I believe we are in the midst of Satan’s last stand. The eyes of the left are blinded to the truth of God’s word and the lost are on fire to see anyone or anything associated with Holy God and His Son Jesus destroyed! Whether we realize it or not, we are all going to be called in this generation to stand and not be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ. Take on the full armor and gird up for the spiritual, and physical battle before us. Our Founders pledged their lives, their wealth, and their sacred honor to start this nation Under God, can we do less in our nation’s hour of need.
Pray, study God’s word, and “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!”
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