A View of Autism - Distinguishing Symptoms From Bad Behavior
Being on a flight for over 5 hours can remind you of just how small an airplane's space can be. Nevertheless, nothing can shrink an already small space faster than the uncontrollable ranting of a mini human being. Let's face it, we've all been there. If it wasn't in a plane, then in a restaurant, movie theater, or some other public space where one little person's frustration begged the attention of everybody in the place. Was the recent debate over children with disabilities fueled over one such incident? Possibly not, but one shock jock's on-air remarks caused waves of indigence and disgust to roll through the country like ripples on a calm lake. At the risk of refueling the ire over this subject, it does beg the question, was he wrong? Not about the insensitivity towards children with disabilities, but was he wrong about his belief that sometimes, what is labeled a disability is just a result of ineffective parenting? The fact remains tha...