Excerpts from ABC News article:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/death-school-parents-protest-dangerous-discipline-autistic-disabled/story?id=17702216
Death at School: Parents Protest Dangerous Discipline for Autistic, Disabled Kids
Kids Hurt, Killed by Restraints at School
Students with autism, special needs are suffocated, stuffed into bags.
"... high-school student _____________ was restrained face-down on a board before being shocked 31 times using skin shock therapy at the Judge Rotenberg Center in Massachusetts after refusing to take off his coat...."
My View:
What is the United States of America coming to? We are evolving into unconscionable beings with no morals or ethics. The world is really coming to an end when we hear that people can sleep at night after getting paid for a job that tortures disabled children and adults with autism for insignificant things.
I am writing this in my own state of rage over the video I just watched on ABC News about an Autistic boy screaming into a camera from the pain of being shocked 31 times by a form of electrocution. I find myself trying to not use the word God, as not to offend anyone who may disbelieve, but after viewing this torture, it was the most un-Godly thing I have ever seen in my life. And then to see this boy restrained, face down, spread eagle.....I am astonished beyond what could be imagined.
How could the State of Massachusetts allow this to occur? According to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts:
"Massachusetts has played a significant historical, cultural, and commercial role in American history"; "Harvard University, founded in 1636, is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States"; "Massachusetts has contributed many prominent politicians to national service, including members of the Adams family and of the Kennedy family.".............
So, how could such a revered State in the USA allow an Autistic child to be tortured like a terrorist? It can't be possible. But, seeing it with my own eyes on national TV makes my stomach turn. This is a total disgrace to humanity. We are evolving into emotionless Zombies who enjoy watching innocent victims suffer and scream in pain. This is no different than stories and film clips I have see of what Hitler did to the Jewish population. It is headed in that direction obviously.
I think the President of the United States should enact a law that prohibits the outright torture of innocent developmentally disabled children and adults with Autism or any incapacitating disability. Something has to be enacted immediately before we lose any more innocent victims to this madness that transcends this country.
And, because I have a son with severe Autism, who has been in Institutions, Crisis Centers, and Respite facilities for short periods of time (enough time for me to recover so I can resume my care of him), I wonder what hell he endured in many of these places. He was seriously abused in one of these facilities, but survived. Because he can not talk, he can not tell me his plight. Before I go to bed tonight, I will pray for all these poor victims who are so pure and innocent, and who do not deserve punishment for disability which impairs their senses and judgement to an incomprehensible degree. I just cherish the thought that this vulnerable population will go straight to Heaven and leave many to sweat it out in their own internal Hell on earth.
Showing posts with label Institution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Institution. Show all posts
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Drugs Are Not Always The Answer For Autism
It's been a long road with all the drugs my son was on since he was 2 years old. He suffers from severe autism, seizures, bipolar disorder, etc. At one point, at 9 years old, he took 35 pills a day and was institutionalized out-of-state. When there is dual diagnosis, it is very hard to stablize a youth. The seizure drugs caused behavior problems and the behavior drugs caused seizure problems. Each disorder was one worse than the other. His seizures were over 5 hours long and his behavior was absolute 'rage'.
Thousands of miligrams of medication to counteract the seizures did not stop them in the intensive care unit of the Hospitals. He was on a pyramid of drugs. Eventually, the only solution was to go the other way. When the drugs were doing him in, causing comatose ammonium poisoning; putting my son in a coma for 2 weeks, then something else had to be done for him. Withdrawal from most of the medication was what had to be done in my care at home.
Now, many years later he was residentially placed on only 2 pills for seizures/behavior. But, after being placed since 2001, new behaviors emerged that were of the self-abusive type. It broke my heart that a new drug was added 3 times a day. This drug causes other debilitating conditions that are destroying his health and, I believe, was the cause for him to have gland surgery, where he was a 1/4 inch away from a tracheotomy.
But, with a person like this, you are damned if you do and damned if you don't. Without drugs he rips his skin off his body. The drug is not fool proof.....as a matter of fact he is becoming immune to it and it's not even working very well now.
As a parent, all you do is worry. You worry if the phone rings and it's bad news. I can live with myself because I take him home 2-3 months out of the year. I'm glad they let me, too. I'm bonded to him. I know how to read him, even though he has little to no speech. I know how to take care of him and make him better. But, he is a lot of work. All these extreme cases of Autism are overwhelming for anyone.
It is unfortunate that there is no other treatment for this most severe form of Autism. It affects a smaller population of this group. But, drugs are not always the anwer.
Thousands of miligrams of medication to counteract the seizures did not stop them in the intensive care unit of the Hospitals. He was on a pyramid of drugs. Eventually, the only solution was to go the other way. When the drugs were doing him in, causing comatose ammonium poisoning; putting my son in a coma for 2 weeks, then something else had to be done for him. Withdrawal from most of the medication was what had to be done in my care at home.
Now, many years later he was residentially placed on only 2 pills for seizures/behavior. But, after being placed since 2001, new behaviors emerged that were of the self-abusive type. It broke my heart that a new drug was added 3 times a day. This drug causes other debilitating conditions that are destroying his health and, I believe, was the cause for him to have gland surgery, where he was a 1/4 inch away from a tracheotomy.
But, with a person like this, you are damned if you do and damned if you don't. Without drugs he rips his skin off his body. The drug is not fool proof.....as a matter of fact he is becoming immune to it and it's not even working very well now.
As a parent, all you do is worry. You worry if the phone rings and it's bad news. I can live with myself because I take him home 2-3 months out of the year. I'm glad they let me, too. I'm bonded to him. I know how to read him, even though he has little to no speech. I know how to take care of him and make him better. But, he is a lot of work. All these extreme cases of Autism are overwhelming for anyone.
It is unfortunate that there is no other treatment for this most severe form of Autism. It affects a smaller population of this group. But, drugs are not always the anwer.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Placement Horrors for the Developmentally Disabled
Just when I thought I heard everything, I read this horrific news article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/06/nyregion/boys-death-highlights-crisis-in-homes-for-disabled.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all
I also have experienced similar nightmares with my own son who suffers from severe Autism and Crisis Behaviors, but, I was able to rescue my son from these "respite" places before it was too late.
This poor helpless population who suffer from the mental torture of Autism are put into placements where they are brutalized at the hands of ignorant, careless caretakers and former criminals. These poor victims can not even talk to express their plight.
I have witnessed this type of abuse and neglect of my own son in an out-of-state Institution and had to go through hell to pull him out after 3 horrific months of his deterioration.
This is a very extreme and complicated group of disabled people who can not control their emotions. People and Professionals do not understand Severe Autism or why they are this way. From what I have perceived of my own son with this extreme type of Autism is that they are "scared", "afraid to take one step". Their lives revolve around "perfection and order". If anything disrupts this "order", they "lose it".
They can not cope. Drugs often make them much worse.
You have to imagine what they feel. It is very complicated. All their senses are off. The way they hear, see, smell, taste and feel are distorted. They don't feel pain the way others do either. And, as they grow, they try very hard to figure out how to cope. But, almost every time, one bad habit broken turns into another bad habit...it doesn't go away.
So, how can anyone want to hurt someone suffering with the worst imaginable pain, the pain of "Severe Autism"?
Reading that so much money is put into these Institutions by the Billions and they wind up hiring anyone willing to take the job without background checks doesn't seem real. And, to stifle anyone witnessing atrocious abuse is beyond morality and ethics. This is happening in America, not a third world country.
Are we evolving backwards in time? That is what it seems. Our country is deteriorating. We are allowing the most helpless and most vulnerable population of our country to be exposed to abuse and neglect and forced to keep it quiet. The only thing we value is money and not human life. This is not the way it was meant to be.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/06/nyregion/boys-death-highlights-crisis-in-homes-for-disabled.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all
I also have experienced similar nightmares with my own son who suffers from severe Autism and Crisis Behaviors, but, I was able to rescue my son from these "respite" places before it was too late.
This poor helpless population who suffer from the mental torture of Autism are put into placements where they are brutalized at the hands of ignorant, careless caretakers and former criminals. These poor victims can not even talk to express their plight.
I have witnessed this type of abuse and neglect of my own son in an out-of-state Institution and had to go through hell to pull him out after 3 horrific months of his deterioration.
This is a very extreme and complicated group of disabled people who can not control their emotions. People and Professionals do not understand Severe Autism or why they are this way. From what I have perceived of my own son with this extreme type of Autism is that they are "scared", "afraid to take one step". Their lives revolve around "perfection and order". If anything disrupts this "order", they "lose it".
They can not cope. Drugs often make them much worse.
You have to imagine what they feel. It is very complicated. All their senses are off. The way they hear, see, smell, taste and feel are distorted. They don't feel pain the way others do either. And, as they grow, they try very hard to figure out how to cope. But, almost every time, one bad habit broken turns into another bad habit...it doesn't go away.
So, how can anyone want to hurt someone suffering with the worst imaginable pain, the pain of "Severe Autism"?
Reading that so much money is put into these Institutions by the Billions and they wind up hiring anyone willing to take the job without background checks doesn't seem real. And, to stifle anyone witnessing atrocious abuse is beyond morality and ethics. This is happening in America, not a third world country.
Are we evolving backwards in time? That is what it seems. Our country is deteriorating. We are allowing the most helpless and most vulnerable population of our country to be exposed to abuse and neglect and forced to keep it quiet. The only thing we value is money and not human life. This is not the way it was meant to be.
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