tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28040139.post568573097590005797..comments2023-07-25T09:25:34.293+01:00Comments on The Voyage: Autism Ordure in Irish Examiner- Why Worry?Sharon McDaidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550156204691696968noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28040139.post-66004410549865153612012-02-08T21:00:18.553+00:002012-02-08T21:00:18.553+00:00year nine at the frontline says: Tony Humphries...year nine at the frontline says: Tony Humphries' views are sometimes lurking beneath the surface at different places and at different times with different folks working in and around special needs in Ireland - it is important to bury this bigotry and scapegoatingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28040139.post-46220858989789548562012-02-06T22:38:26.123+00:002012-02-06T22:38:26.123+00:00@Mike, thanks. Their response has been very disapp...@Mike, thanks. Their response has been very disappointing. I have also contacted UCC about someone with these views teaching courses taken by parents and teaching assistants. <br /><br />@Nick, ach you know what I'm like! I can be coldly clinical when needed. But this bollocks; "scientists and engineers have "few or no heart qualities"- cringe! As well as being livid, I'm embarrassed for him.<br /><br />@Lisa I'd talk to them too. We could soon show that we're not all in our heads!<br />His words fit so well with the narrative you describe- and that is very common. We work so hard to try to get the truth about our lives and our children out and then this happens. It's unfair.Sharon McDaidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550156204691696968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28040139.post-61447448252481774452012-02-06T13:35:20.591+00:002012-02-06T13:35:20.591+00:00I'm here, I'm loud and I don't mind be...I'm here, I'm loud and I don't mind being interviewed so please make sure that any media outlet that gives Tony Humphreys the oxygen of publicity - counters it by listening to a loving parent.<br /><br />As for the newly diagnosed - what struck me was the memory triggered by reading the article - that of my own mother and father telling me in words and actions that they didn't really believe in autism. I was working too much/letting them watch teletubbies/nursing Grace for too long/not spending enough time getting them to eat/toilet/talk/play appropriately/independently<br /><br />And boy was I willing to believe it. Its me! Its all my fault. I didn't carry them properly to gestation, I didn't follow all the rules in 'what to expect when you're expecting" - I didn't make all my own baby foods from organically sourced ingredients, I let them watch tv, I let them sleep in my bed, I let them cuddle with me when they were crying instead of teaching them control over their emotions - I fed them when they were hungry instead of timing my feeds, I didn't read to them in the womb....<br /><br />me bad, me bad, me bad, ME BAD! - yes I agree with you.<br /><br />It took years for me to finally feel that I was doing okay with what nature had handed me. That I had strengths that were really giving my kids an advantage over their genes and I was more than willing to share those strengths. Maybe I wasn't such a bad horrible failure as a mother???<br /><br />So yeah, thanks Mr Humphrey for letting me experience that feeling of abysmally low self worth again, as if it were yesterday.<br /><br />xxLisamareehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445509438246694219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28040139.post-84694028578276390162012-02-06T12:09:48.198+00:002012-02-06T12:09:48.198+00:00Keep keeping on. Excellent dissection of doddery t...Keep keeping on. Excellent dissection of doddery thinking. It's not what a coldly clinical parent of a child with autism might do, but hey. (Oops, letting the irony leak...)Nick McGivneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03603579300515543458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28040139.post-64783041326004756572012-02-05T23:06:50.912+00:002012-02-05T23:06:50.912+00:00You are right, Sharon. This vile nonsense needs st...You are right, Sharon. This vile nonsense needs stopping in its tracks. Well done on contacting the Examiner. I will add my name to a public protest or statement against this man.Mike Stantonhttp://penumbrage.comnoreply@blogger.com