Posted on 07/20/2008 6:50:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
She read a letter from a mother brought her son to a doctor because of problems and he was diagnosed with ADD. Well, that's serious, so she wanted a second opinion. Second doctor said it was mild autism. Okay, well, which was it? So, she went for a third opinion ... and got a third diagnosis.
Finally, she went to a fourth doctor who told her: "Ma'am. You son is a brat."
Go to the link and listen to the audio.....he said it.
It’s called freedom of speech vs political correctness.
Care to share his field of expertise?
a bomb thrower like no other
Behavior, behavior, behavior, behavior, behavior . . . .
This is what Savage said, more or less, and other replies confirm this IMO.
Of course mediasmatters and the author of the article have unalienable rights to their opinions. We have equal rights to disagree.
America is a supercollider of unalienable rights with so far a limited number of head-on collisions. But every day the anti-matter folks -- those who object to the right to express opinions contrary to theirs -- add more and more particles increasing the inevitability of an explosion.
The source I looked at says “nutritional ethnomedicine”, but I can guarantee, that many Ph.D.’s theses are no more impressive than that sounds. Mathematics and science are more difficult, but many wade through and do unimpressive and even faked research. The point is, many of the same people who criticize his views look up to Ph.D.s, so it is necessary for them to ignore this. Would a degree in “global warming” work for them? Probably.
Michael Savage had survived due to his education level and religion. Anyone else would have been run out as a hayseed Right Wing Christian wacko, and many have been run out of talk radio this way. It’s impossible to label him a fascist, so they are lost and must marginalize him in other ways. But he does have something to say, and a lot of it agrees with Mark Levin, who unlike Savage, defends Republicans.
Nice gratuitous slam from out of left field, there. When I can endure even a few minutes of his hysterics, he often finds a way to mock and belittle his betters, including Levin, Hannity and Limbaugh.
It used to be most of the kids who had it were diagnosed as mentally disabled and shunted off to institutions.
I'm about 20 years younger than you. When I went to grade school, the school I went to was also the training school for the teachers' school at the local college. Which included a classroom of what were then called "retarded" students. In retrospect, some of them were definitely what would be called autistic today.
One of my first babysitting jobs also was for an autistic boy (about six). That would have been really difficult, except his younger sister (about three) was very bright and could tell me what his normal behavior was and what I should do.
I was nearly labeled as autistic because I was a late talker, liked to play by myself (puzzles mostly) and didn't work hard to play with the other kids. Then some bright teacher thought, "maybe she can't hear very well" and had my hearing tested. I was 3 + years old when they finally discovered I was hard of hearing--totally deaf in my left right ear. That was the reason I wasn't talking.
Once they realized the real problem, I was put into a speech therapy and lip reading class so I could catch up. By the time I reached kindergarten, I had caught up.
Many of the same affiliates used to carry Savage, and years ago Chuck Harder. Since neither Savage nor Harder would defend indefensible policies, Hannity and Levin have moved into those time slots. I don’t think that either Harder or Savage think the Democratic candidates are better. Hannity and Levin hammer things like amnesty for illegal aliens, but somehow manage to refrain from associating Republicans with these policies.
...right ear.... LOL!
I am always curious about syndromes that seem to coincide with technological or cultural changes. If a diagnosis surges “since 1980” and continues through today, I would investigate these areas: 1) increased access to doctors for non-emergency issues (ie, medical plans where you pay next to nothing for on-demand GP visits), 2) changes in family structure (Moms who go back to work and leave infants in daycare), 3) inundation of children to computer and video media.
Those are the directions my gut leads me. Some psychiatrist needs to jump in and discuss the crucial phases of child development, and what might be interfering with them.
I don't think Mike meant that in every case, but...I support Mike.
It was the same with asthma and ADD --in many cases parents got more money if their kids had these ailments.
You are a perfect fit for cretinous fraud Michael Weiner.
Maybe you, he and Jerry Brown can share a wheat-grass smoothie and dance nude on the beach.
My grandsons hearing is fine, at least it was a couple of years ago when they tested it.
Somewhere on the net is a paper from Harvard I think that found that the rate of autism has increased about the same as the rate of retarded has gone down. The theory being that there was money for autism and not for retardation. There was even some discussion on Fr about. <p. I think most kids just suffer from impulse control. Are there kids who have a problem? sure. I do agree with Savage about the brats though. I cannot hardly stand to be around most kids under 20 (I know) I just want to smack them and yell “snap out of it!”
“What no parent of a special needs child wants is to be pre-judged or isolated and kept in the shadows so that people like you don’t have to look at a child with a disability. We want and need support of those around us and hope upon hope that our child be treated with compassion and understanding.”
If I had an antique car I could get a special plate for free to drive it on special occasions.
But it took Dustin Hoffman and Tom Hanks to make it mainstream celebrity material.
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