http://mediamatters.org/research/2008/07/17/savage-on-autism-a-fraud-a-racket-in-99-percent/144072

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"I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out. That's what autism is. 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, idiot'."

11/7/2016 11:06:47 AM

HE JUS TELLIN IT LIKE IT IS

11/7/2016 11:20:02 AM

TIL only boys have autism.

11/7/2016 11:34:41 AM

article dated 2008. no thx.

11/7/2016 11:40:39 AM

You might have a better argument like this against ADD rather than Autism...

11/7/2016 12:06:08 PM

He's obviously wrong about everything. But why do those guys screw up fairly mainstream sentiments so badly?

It's not a secret that more and more adults are turning to disability in the face of grim job prospects, and many impoverished mothers/doctors/care providers have always done whatever they can to get extra for children, even if it means exaggerating or inventing a condition.

But nobody's living large off their kid's "asthma" or "speech delay," and I wouldn't want to trade places with a parent who had to make a decision like that. And, if I had to live in Hale County, Alabama, I'd probably fall pretty quick into the 25% of residents who have a "disability."

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"Scott Birdsall went to lots of meetings where he learned about retraining programs and educational opportunities. At one meeting, he says, a staff member pulled him aside. "Scotty, I'm gonna be honest with you," the guy told him. "There's nobody gonna hire you … We're just hiding you guys." The staff member's advice to Scott was blunt: "Just suck all the benefits you can out of the system until everything is gone, and then you're on your own." Scott, who was 56 years old at the time, says it was the most real thing anyone had said to him in a while."

11/7/2016 12:12:19 PM