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Originally posted by Associated Press
NEW YORK - Radio talk show host Michael Savage, who described 99 percent of children with autism as brats, said Monday he was trying to “boldly awaken” parents to his view that many people are being wrongly diagnosed.
Some parents of autistic children have called for Savage’s firing after he described autism as a racket last week. “In 99 percent of the cases, it’s a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out,” Savage said on his radio program last Wednesday.
Savage offered no apology in a message posted Monday on his Web site. He said greedy doctors and drug companies were creating a “national panic” by overdiagnosing autism, a mental disorder that inhibits a person’s ability to communicate.
On his radio show last week, he said: “What do you mean they scream and they’re silent? They don’t have a father around to tell them, ‘Don’t act like a moron. You’ll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don’t sit there crying and screaming, you idiot.”’
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...Uh...wow. I mean, wow.
This actually really pisses me off. And I know, this guy may be a shock jockey who does this purposely to offend, but I have a ****ing nephew who is autistic, and I seriously doubt that he's doing it for mother****ing show.
What a bastard.
ADHD is indeed overdiagnosed and often the result of bad parenting. Autism is not.
