CatherinePPP, when people disagree with you they are not stabbing you in the back.
That kind of thinking is liberal “hate crime” stuff.
Can you agree that some children are being prescribed drugs that they should not take?
I don’t think they even have drugs for autism. There’s no medical treatment for it as far as I know. Everyone keeps talking about Ritalin but that’s what they give to hyperactive kids I think. I agree that stuff is over prescribed but I think people are really getting autism confused with other things if they keep talking about medication. Autistic kids are retarded and they need constant supervision because they do things like bang their heads into the wall and scratch themselves till they bleed. The ones who feel stabbed in the back are their parents, who are doing the loving and pro-life work of raising a disabled child, to say that 99% of them are just badly behaved. They’re no more badly behaved than a Down’s Syndrome child is. They’re retarded and they can’t help it.
There are a lot of conservative parents of children with disabilities and no wonder they’re upset to hear conservatives saying things like that, or keep confusing their children with hyperactive or disfunctional kids, or saying the problem is Ritalin when their kids are not the ones who get prescribed that. Of course it’s not a hate crime to say what he wants, but if he insults his own audience, is it any surprise that they don’t want to listen to him anymore? He could go on the air and say Christians are morons too if he wanted but would he have any listeners left at the end of the day? No, and he would deserve it. Saying retarded kids are brats and their fathers are doing a bad job was a bad decision and it insulted a lot of conservative families. He really should just apologize to them. If all he said was “some children are being prescribed drugs that they should not take” then I don’t think he would have even one listener complaining about that.