A Letter That Will Make You Feel Uncomfortable at Best

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A family is in shock and a community has united after an anonymous hate letter was written about a young boy living with severe autism.

Karla Begley told CityNews her son Max, 13, stays with his grandmother in the morning during the summer time. It was at that home in Newcastle where letter was delivered on Friday.

“I was shaking when I was reading it,” Brenda Millson, Max’s grandmother, told CityNews. “It’s awful words. You don’t know why somebody would ever do such a thing.”

The typed, one-page letter refers to the young boy as a “nuisance” and a “wild animal” before suggesting the family move or “euthanize” the child.

Begley says the police have been contacted and should they have grounds, charges will be filed against the letter’s author.
http://www.citynews.ca/2013/08/18/fa...n-with-autism/

[SAUTO]

And I'm FAR from miserable. And I talk tough in real life. and back it up every ****ing time.


I'm THAT guy.
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[Frazod]

Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

What are you talking about pussy? I wanted to say much more in response to your first post but held back because I knew you would cry.


**** you for real though. You are a ****ing pussy. You are a ****ing bitch. This is all you have. Talking shit online. That's it.

Sad. Very sad existence you've got there.
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Oh, you held back? Wow. Well, you've got Pussy River flowing over flood stage, so go ahead and lay it on me, sister! How did I incur your bitchy wrath? Did the last guy who ****ed your ass yell "THESE PEOPLE!" over and over again?

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

And I'm FAR from miserable. And I talk tough in real life. and back it up every ****ing time.


I'm THAT guy.
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[fan4ever]

Originally Posted by NewChief

This sounds a lot like my oldest son. He's only eight, and he's definitely cognitively and physically delayed... however... he fits in pretty well (though not to the point that other kids ask him to come over to their house and hang out or anything. Peers like him, but don't want to be close friends with him). He's the sweetest, most thoughtful kid in the world, and we're so thankful that part of his genetic abnormality seems to be that he's not overly self conscious about his difference (though his little brother, extremely social and popular, getting invited to play dates constantly bothers him). It's very likely he'll be somewhat dependent on us for the rest of our lives, but it's good to think that isn't a death sentence for my wife and I and may actually be a very pleasant, positive experience as we age.

I can relate...as much as our boy (16 now) will need us forever, we also have this sweet little guy who's always happy to see us and never turns us down when we want to snuggle him up.

[fan4ever]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

Bravo to guys like you, Mosbonian, fan4ever, and Flopnuts.

I don't mean this in any sort of negative way, whatsoever, but I have to imagine it is pretty rough. You guys don't make it sound so bad.

Very kind of you. You're right. I can't speak for the others, but what happened to my little boy (doctor error) will always be a tragedy, but we decided long ago, we refused to let his life be one...and kids like this show you a perspective and insight many don't get to see...like for example, don't sweat the little sh*t... and comparatively, it's almost all little.

[loochy]

Originally Posted by Cochise

WTF is going on here?

Well, some people are telling stories about their encounters with mentally handicapped folks. On the side, JASONSAUTO and Frazod are bitching at each other about nothing.

[patteeu]

Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

What is "troublesome" about a child in their own backyard playing loudly?
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It depends on what you mean by "loudly".

[cabletech94]

Originally Posted by Iowanian

Regardless of how you feel about the topic, the letter itself is psychotic and about as asshole of a thing as you can say to the parent of a special needs child.

this.

[cabletech94]

Originally Posted by Mosbonian

I'm going to go with the "most people don't have an effing clue what it is like to live with a Special Needs child" explanation for many of the responses on here.

And making light of the situation shows, for the moment, you are showing a lack of class.

and this.

[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by fan4ever

Not to talk about myself again, but I have a son who has severe Cerebral Palsy, and he can be very noisy. There are some things we won't do; take him to movies (although he loves them) or anything else in public that will be disruptive to others trying to enjoy an event. We DO have to be in public with him from time to time, like shopping, etc. and there I just think other people can just put up with it and I answer disgusted looks with a nasty glare but I don't confront people for the most part. That being said, if I had a neighbor who complained about him when we're on our own property, front yard, back yard whatever...I'd go apeshit all over them.

Once again....not in the same aspect of what you're going through....but my 6 year old daughter has to get 24 hour EEGs 3 or 4 times a year to measure her brain activity. So for 24 hours...she has to wear electrodes on her head...and her head is then wrapped up so she doesn't mess with them. All of the electrodes are attached to wires that run down to a backpack that she has to wear. Everytime that my daughter gets one done....my wife takes her out for lunch and to pick out a small toy.

My wife called me crying one time because they were out eating lunch and some lady walked by the table they were sitting at and said under her breath "she shouldn't even be here.....keep her at home next time". ****ing **** is lucky I wasn't there because I would have snapped.

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by Pestilence

My wife called me crying one time because they were out eating lunch and some lady walked by the table they were sitting at and said under her breath "she shouldn't even be here.....keep her at home next time". ****ing **** is lucky I wasn't there because I would have snapped.

People are ****ing crazy. One of our friends has two young sons with longish hair (not like shoulder length... just typical longish hair for young kids). Some guy, randomly, walked up to her at a restaurant and said, "Are those boys or girls?" She replied, "Boys" and he replied, "I'd never let my sons have hair like that."

WTF? I mean.. WTF? Seriously.

[fan4ever]

Originally Posted by Pestilence

Once again....not in the same aspect of what you're going through....but my 6 year old daughter has to get 24 hour EEGs 3 or 4 times a year to measure her brain activity. So for 24 hours...she has to wear electrodes on her head...and her head is then wrapped up so she doesn't mess with them. All of the electrodes are attached to wires that run down to a backpack that she has to wear. Everytime that my daughter gets one done....my wife takes her out for lunch and to pick out a small toy.

My wife called me crying one time because they were out eating lunch and some lady walked by the table they were sitting at and said under her breath "she shouldn't even be here.....keep her at home next time". ****ing **** is lucky I wasn't there because I would have snapped.

Wow. Was it an old bitty? Some older people tend to think kids like ours should be kept at home or even institutionalized. I guess it's how things were handled way back when. My own mother insinuated that once and I told her if she ever wanted Lisa (my wife who she loved) to ever speak to her again, she'd better never say something that again. My wife also got the treatment your wife received years ago when my son was still a baby and had a feeding tube running up his nose...again, old broad...a cashier. My wife had to stand in front of the door to keep me from heading back down to the Walgreens where this old fart worked.

[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by NewChief

People are ****ing crazy. One of our friends has two young sons with longish hair (not like shoulder length... just typical longish hair for young kids). Some guy, randomly, walked up to her at a restaurant and said, "Are those boys or girls?" She replied, "Boys" and he replied, "I'd never let my sons have hair like that."

WTF? I mean.. WTF? Seriously.

That shit used to happen all the time when my twins were around 1. One of the girls has had short hair ever since she was born.....and she still does for the most part. My other girl has hair that's long as hell. People used to come up and ask if she was a boy. If I was there....I'd usually respond back with a "Yeah...I totally dress up my boy in pink clothes and flowers.....you ****ing idiot." My wife is more polite.

[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by fan4ever

Wow. Was it an old bitty? Some older people tend to think kids like ours should be kept at home or even institutionalized. I guess it's how things were handled way back when. My own mother insinuated that once and I told her if she ever wanted Lisa (my wife who she loved) to ever speak to her again, she'd better never say something that again. My wife also got the treatment your wife received years ago when my son was still a baby and had a feeding tube running up his nose...again, old broad...a cashier. My wife had to stand in front of the door to keep me from heading back down to the Walgreens where this old fart worked.

From what my wife said....she was probably around 40-50.

Stupid thing is.....is my daughter is quiet and polite. You'd never know she was there because she doesn't make a ton of a noise. The stupid **** just didn't like the fact that she had to share the same air with her. AFAIC.....the old bitch can stop breathing and die.

[fan4ever]

Originally Posted by patteeu

It depends on what you mean by "loudly".

Y'know, I can get people being irritated by things like this in addition to it being a situation they don't understand or appreciate. In all honesty, I wouldn't like it either...but isn't that when we're supposed to better than that? The Golden Rule? Maybe take a second to think about what these people's lives are like and maybe the last thing they need is a crappy neighbor making things even worse.