from TACA website:
To Mr. Leary and publishers,
On the comment widely circulated:
Another brilliant actor/comedian has offered up his take on autism. Dennis Leary has a new book coming out that offers the following observation about autism:
"There is a huge boom in autism right now because inattentive mothers and competitive dads want an explanation for why their dumb-ass kids can't compete academically, so they throw money into the happy laps of shrinks . . . to get back diagnoses that help explain away the deficiencies of their junior morons. I don't give a what these crackerjack whack jobs tell you - yer kid is NOT autistic. He's just stupid. Or lazy. Or both."
It's hard to find the time to reply to each and every attack against autism, our family, or our beloved son who is that "dumb-ass" kid spoken of in the quote......
Especially since we know the words in reply might never reach you. But I suppose we do it anyway because it is, quite frankly, therapeutical - so we don't need to "t...
