Here is part two of my thoughts (as well as some addressed directly to what I see as the New Bettelheim threat, a new menace called “Neurodiversity), as said in another forum:

Something else people don’t talk about is what this does to the rest of families, the fathers and children, the siblings who are led to believe their wife/mother were cold hearted monsters and the whole impact this sort of thing really had on everyone…

This is one of many parts of why I’ve kept to our family’s privacy (or had until my privacy was summarily violated by Neurodiversity and Baggs to do as they’ve done), is my mother, who’s been traumatized quite enough in her life and wishes to have no more of it, and my wish to respect that.

You Neurodiversity ‘hip college kids” and flat out frauds, at some point you need to develop consciences, begin to understand the full impact of everything you do, the real lives of real people, all of us, Autistics and parents alike, that you violate and ravage with your stupid senseless self serving propaganda, and for what?
So you can have a little fame, a little undue sympathy thrown your way, a few goodies and your tap into desperately lacking supports and services that we, the severely disabled need in order to function and survive?

You are so incredibly shallow and self serving, narcissistic and callous to the real situations of others and the damage you cause us that its just mind blowing..

He claimed to be helping us, and now you claim the same

Why did Bettelheim do this to us? (and I say “us” because it was our whole families who were impacted), and why do you do this now?

What must he have been thinking?
What are you thinking?

I have Kanner’s Syndrome Autism/Autistic Disorder (severe autism, not “Aspergrs"), and other challenges, but I am able to type and express myself on the computer and with my communicator (and its really me typing, I don’t use facilitated communication so there is no doubt it is me and these are my words) and I live independently with suports in my own apartment.

Here is part one of my thoughts (as well as some addressed directly to what I see as the New Bettelheim threat, a new menace called “Neurodiversity), as said in another forum:

It took me two days to watch this movie due to the fact it was very emotional to me to see. I saw my own mother and what I know she was put through in each of these women, and I still feel very badly for what they did to her.

I was born in 1964.

I still have records in my possession where a doctor described my father as ‘a milktoast sort of man” and talked about how my mother ‘was a dominant woman’—this all being said while I lay in a coma on a ventilator because of a serious self injurious act…

sorry, lots of memories and emotions really were drawn up by this

and this is the thing I see Neurodiversity doing to parents all over again, on the forum boards and everywhere they blindly attack, telling them its their (the parents) failings, they are wrong every way they turn, and ‘let me tell you how to raise, let me tell you about your child”

you see.. I have something in common with each of these parents I encounter online and now in this movie, and that is that I have two parents too, and I remember that and I know that any of these could have been mine as well.

and I see another, like Bettelheim, performing a massive hoax on these parents and Autistics, I see someone who claimed to have such hardships in instituations where they simply never were (Bettelheim was never in the camps, and someone else has never spent one year in any institution), I see the parallels, I see the false clutching to Judiasm and the horror that real people such as my grandparents faced (Bettelheim’s ‘like in a concentration camp’ and her/their “ballastexistenz")

and I know this is going somewhere really bad, and fast, and people are being and are going to be really hurt by all of this before its over, just as they were back then.

I have two teenaged autistic children.  If only decades had not been wasted blaming it on Mother instead of doing research to help improve the functioning of autistic children, how much better their futures might be today.

Audrey Rasmusson
Pittsburgh, PA