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My DIL gave birth to twins, she's does not want anyone to hold them.
The twins were born 8 weeks premature. My grandson has been home for 4 months(they are 5 months old) and my DIL doesn't want anyone to hold him. I have held him a total of 6 times and for less than 5 minutes at a time. Our granddaughter is still in the hospital, but we are hoping she will be home soon. My DIL did not act this way with the birth of their first child - I kept him overnight at 3 weeks old. This "issue" has put a serve strain on our relationship. I wanted pictures of my grandson with his great grandmothers at Christmas - just a quick snap shot and my DIL refused to let us to that. Our parents are in their 70's and it upsets me to think that something might happen to one of them and we wouldn't even have a picture of them with the baby boy. Is this normal?
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My daughter was born at 32 weeks at 2.8 pounds. I can completely understand where your DIL is coming from. I didn't know whether or not my daughter would survive her delivery. Thank the good Lord she did! She is now a very happy 1 year old! But, in your DIL's defence I know how she feels(as well as the other posters). You have no idea what it is like to have a child born premature unless you as a parent have lived through it. I understand it is also upsetting as a grandparent. But, you have raised your children the was you saw fit. It is her right as a mother to do the same. My daughter was lucky to only spend 6 weeks in the NICU. When she came home, the only people I would let in my house to see her was my parents, in-laws and our siblings. I did not let any children around her, and when my son came home from school I made him shower because of all the germs he could have been carrying. You need to be patient and understanding.posted 03/15/2012 by a BabyCenter Member
Having anything to do with your grandchildren is a privilege, not a right. I agree with your DIL, if I were in her place, I wouldn't let my in-laws, friends, or anyone but medical personnel and my husband hold them. They were born premature, they are at a higher risk of getting sick than a baby born on or around his or her due date. For the record, I completely agree with gypsyfilly, and if you're not careful you're going to push your DIL and your son away and then you won't get any time with your grandchildren. You can go ahead and call me rude if you want to, won't make any difference to me and highly doubt you will actually take any of the great advice that the previous posters gave you.posted 09/08/2011 by corabe
i know as grandparents, you often think that more years on earth means more wisdom. please don't take it personally. it's is only becasue the babies are preemies that your DIL is acting that way. i have a preemie as well and the first month or so for the baby's sake you try to limit their exposure to as many germs as possible. preemies are particularly vunerable to germs and sickness that can land then right back in the NICU within their first months of life. so if you can be have patience she will and should come around. in the meantime try to be around her and the kids as much as you can. you can talk to them and "play" with them while their are in car seats and bouncers, things that don't involve holding them. the kids will soon recognize your voice and face the more you interact with them. don't limit yourself into thinking that if i can't hold them then it means that she doesn't want me to see them. hopefully you and your DIL's relationship can get back on track.posted 04/13/2011 by momof2activekids
I would not go as far as to say you are being very selfish I think that people who have not gone thru what those of us who had premature babies (my twins were in the NICU ) have no idea what we go thru even after the fact. Christmas time is very stressful for a mother with a new baby because of all the germs and the amount of people around. My boys are 8 months and I just had a situation where I was at my in-laws wedding and the aunts grabbed my boys and walked off with them. I wanted to cry and yell at them for not thinking about how that made me feel as a new mom. They are still little and the aunts let everyone touch them and my husband and I didn't want to be rude but we were also very upset because we had told them we were trying to limit the amount of germs they were getting. I Completely see where your DIL is coming from and I think from here on out you should try to see things from her point of view. I'm still not comfortable so it may take time but try to understand.posted 04/02/2011 by jenni95
I didnt want anyone to hold my son. i dont want anyone to hold my next either. i gave my mother in law an inch and she took a mile. she went as far as taking him from me without asking. telling me what to do. how to raise my kids. she pushed me away. i gave her a call and told her that she wasn't respecting me as a mother to my son and a wife to her son. she was so jealous that he son loved someone more than he loved her that she tried being me for him. it was truly disgusting. she steps over the line sometimes still but she is quickly corrected. you DIL may have trust issues or she is just scared since they were so premature. its normal.. it really is. expecially if she is a first time mom.posted 03/24/2011 by a BabyCenter Member
It wouldn't have killed her, it would've killed them. Selfish woman I do believe.posted 02/15/2012 by iampinkftw
You really just dont get it grandma...... IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU! How selfish of you to keep going on and on about a damn picture. Just because the baby is home doesnt mean the child is 100% healthy and strong. A stuffed nose or simple cough to you and me could be FATAL to a premature baby. My baby was just born at the beginning of this month at 26weeks and my mother is going around planning a baby shower and telling everyone the party will be in April when he comes home so everyone can meet the baby, And I had to burst her bubble because the Dr's told me when he comes home he can't go in to public like a supermarket mall or restaurant for the first three months he is home because any little illness could make him end up right back in the nicu. You obviously don't understand just how seriously you need to take your grandchilds health. It's sad.posted 01/22/2012 by sstaylor5678
@gypsfilly - You stated "you are probably coming across as rude and invasive to your DIL!! Just stop interfering w/ their life and child rearing!" Where did that come from? I never said anything about my DIL being rude or invasive. How dare you insinuate that I or my DIL might be either of these - you don't know us. Your the one that stated that you were probably coming across rude and I simply agreed that in my eyes you were. All I want is a picture to remember our parents by - you know one that I can show my grandchildren years later - that was your great so and so holding you. Maybe now and then get to hold him. One more thing - I thought this sight might give me some insight but all your comments have done is upset me.
@gypsyfilly - Unfortunately you do come across rude. What happened to the day when everyone took joy in having kids and sharing thier love and excitement with immediate family. It's almost like she's afraid they might love someone besides her. DIL doesn't even want my son to hold him. Really? Also, what you don't know is that since the twins birth they have already lost one great grandmother (with no pictures - it was on the DIL side so her mother is having to deal with that and that was the only great grandmother on that side). Your grandparents may be still going STRONG, but my parents are not - my mother has serve heart problems and it breaks my heart not to have a picture of her with the baby.
I hear what you guys are saying, but would it have killed her to let us take a picture at Christmas? Really?? Like I said both my husbands and my parents are 70+ years old.
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PHOENIX — Customers of some medical-marijuana dispensaries are discovering that they don't have to go far if they have the munchies, thanks to business-savvy Girl Scouts.
A few days after a Girl Scout sold 117 boxes of cookies in two hours outside a San Francisco pot dispensary, Lexi Menees, 8, returned to TruMed Dispensary in Phoenix on Saturday for the same purpose.
Lexi's mother, Heidi Carney, got the idea after hearing about what happened in San Francisco.
"For me, this isn't anything controversial," Carney said. "It's medication. It's no different than standing in front of a Walgreens or a CVS."
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Lexi and her parents arrived Friday with between 100 and 150 boxes to sell. Her family said she sold more than 50.
"It's better than she would've gotten outside a grocery store," said Justin Menees, Lexi's father.
Susan de Queljoe, a spokeswoman for the Girl Scouts-Arizona Cactus-Pine Council, said selling in front of marijuana dispensaries isn't something the organization would encourage, but that it's up to the parents.
"The girls' safety is our primary concern. So we give guidelines out to all the parents and hope that they will follow them," de Queljoe said.
Lauren Gooding, an oncology nurse who is the president of TruMed, runs the state-licensed facility with her father and brother. Gooding said Carney called her Friday with the idea, and she was immediately on board.
Gooding sent a text to more than 2,000 customers about the cookie sale and threw in a tie-in deal: Patients who buy at least half of an ounce of pot will have their pick of a free box of Thin Mints, Samoas or any of the other cookie choices.
She hopes the presence of the Girl Scouts will help eliminate the stigma tied to medical-marijuana dispensaries. Furthermore, with a security guard always on site to ensure nobody illegally consumes a pot purchase, there is no danger of Lexi or any child being exposed to marijuana, she said.
"We are not promoting medical marijuana to her," Gooding said.
Girl Scout officials said they aren't surprised there are copycats after the story of San Francisco Girl Scout Danielle Lei, 13, went viral on social media and various news outlets. Lei set up a cookie table Monday outside The Green Cross, a licensed marijuana dispensary in that city's Mission District.
Kevin Reed, president of the dispensary, said Lei's mother, a secretary for a city task force on medical cannabis, approached him a couple weeks ago.
"She wanted to help break down the barriers around medical marijuana," Reed said. "I thought it was extremely sweet."
Reed said this isn't the first time Lei has sold cookies in front of other pot facilities. She did it the past two years but is just now getting attention for it, he said.
Other Scouts in Lei's Troupe 3168 haven't done business outside medical-marijuana clinics, but the Girl Scouts of Northern California don't have a problem with it.
"Girls are selling cookies, and they and their parents pick out places where they can make good sales," Dana Allen, director of marketing and communications for Girl Scouts of Northern California, said.
According to Kelly Parisi, chief communications officer from Girl Scouts of the USA, each region of Girl Scouts has its own guidelines.
"All the money stays in local councils, and they make all decisions on how the cookie program is run," Parisi said in a statement. "As always, our primary concern is the safety and well-being of the girls we serve. Volunteers and parents are empowered to relocate their booths if conditions change and the location is no longer suitable."
And the opinions of Girl Scout officials on the matter seem to vary from state to state. This month, reports about Girl Scouts implementing the same strategy in Colorado, where recreational marijuana is legal, turned out to be a hoax.
The Girl Scouts of Colorado issued a statement on its Facebook page Friday to dispel the rumor, effectively prohibiting members from selling at a dispensary.
"We recognize these are legitimate businesses, but we don't feel they are an appropriate place for girls to be selling cookies in Colorado," the organization said.
Carney said she and her husband simply told Lexi they would try setting up in front of a facility that is similar to a pharmacy, where people go to get their medicine.
"She doesn't even know where she's at. It's more entrepreneurial," Carney said. "She's trying to go to camp this summer."
Meanwhile, with no opposition from Lei's local Girl Scouts chapter, she and her mother returned to the Green Cross to sell more cookies Saturday.
The Green Cross, which happens to sell a variety of marijuana named Girl Scout Cookie, has posted numerous items on its Facebook page referencing Lei, with one comical post featuring the Dos Equis beer "most interesting man in the world."
"I don't always buy Girl Scout cookies, but when I do, I buy them from the genius outside The Green Cross pot dispensary," the post reads.
Material from The San Jose Mercury News and Los Angeles Times is included in this report.


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Created last year by the merger of Invitrogen Corp. and Applied Biosystems, Life Technologies sells chemicals and research tools under the Invitrogen brand. It sells sophisticated scientific instruments under the Applied Biosystems name.
Gregory Lucier , the company's chief executive, says the merger created a company with the product base to supply the vast needs of biological research and the economies of scale to compete with the biggest rivals.
From just a few drugs in the beginning, biotech's scope has steadily widened and shows no sign of slowing down, Lucier said.
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A veteran of General Electric Co., Lucier joined Invitrogen as chief executive in 2003, and steered the company through acquisitions that quickly bulked up the company, which by 2008 employed about 1,000 people in Carlsbad.
Today, about 1,200 work in Carlsbad, including contract and part-time employees, Lucier said. Companywide, the payroll is 9,500. And the company is hiring. More than 200 jobs are open, 79 in Carlsbad.
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Even during the economic downturn, demand for the company's products, especially the one-use "consumables," continues strong, Lucier said. And the federal stimulus bill will help that demand, he said.
The stimulus bill provides $10 billion to the National Institutes of Health, the largest single funder of biomedical research in the United States.
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However, analyst Jeffrey Stafford wrote in a recent report that Life Technologies has high hurdles to clear to realize its ambitions to keep growing.
These hurdles include paying back the $2.5 billion debt it incurred to finance the merger, and producing a constant supply of new products.
New technology is constantly being discovered in the life sciences, wrote Stafford, who covers Life Technologies for Morningstar, a Chicago-based research firm. That technology enables established competitors as well as startups to enter the market.
In business-speak, Stafford wrote, there are few "barriers to entry" for competitors.
"To stay ahead, Life must continue to innovate or choose attractive licensing partners -- not always an easy task, considering the amount of competition in the industry," Stafford wrote in the report, released Feb. 26.
The sour economy is also a worry, Stafford wrote, although the economic stimulus plan could provide a boost.
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On the positive side, the company gets most of its revenue from "consumables," Stafford wrote. These are single-use products, such as genetic test kits or cell-culturing chemicals, that provide a recurring revenue stream. That's a more stable source of sales than reusable products.
In the short term, Lucier said, Life Technologies is most concerned with preserving continuity for its customers.


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After losing a 1977 congressional race, Marvin Durning could have been forgiven for walking away from public service. In a real heartbreaker, Mr. Durning was the odds-on favorite to win, but his Republican challenger proved better at getting out the vote.
Fortunately, Mr. Durning had a tireless energy and quickly moved on to a three-year stint as chief of enforcement for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under President Carter.
Jean Durning, his wife of 55 years, recalls him saying "What can I do to be helpful in this world? You've got to have a lot of irons in the fire."
Mr. Durning, a prominent environmental attorney and Democrat who also ran unsuccessfully for attorney general and governor, died last Wednesday (Oct. 16) after a long struggle with Parkinson's disease. He was 84.
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Although he never won elected office, his efforts as a lawyer still can be felt today. In partnership with civic groups, Mr. Durning helped make way for Seattle's Foster Island marsh trail and fought to protect the free-flowing Columbia River from an airport expansion in Portland. He also kept billboards off most parts of interstate highways in Washington.
Friends and family describe Mr. Durning as a devoted husband and father who spread his passion for protecting the environment to those around him.
His wife, Jean, became Northwest representative of the Wilderness Society when it played a key role in preserving old-growth forests, and son Alan is founding executive director of Sightline Institute, an environmental think tank in Seattle.
At the age of 11, Alan accompanied his dad to Port Angeles during the 1976 gubernatorial race for a speech on energy policy.
"He talked about how expensive and dangerous nuclear power was, and I remember thinking, 'Wow, how does he know all of that,' " Alan said. "The standing ovation they gave him made me feel like I was lucky."
Mr. Durning was born in 1929 in New Orleans to an Irish Catholic father and a Jewish mother. Money was tight and became tighter still when Mr. Durning's father died in a 1940 car accident. His widowed mother, Celia, then managed to support the family with a small jewelry business.
Alan recalled a conversation with his father in which the elder Durning attributed his environmental activism to growing up in the South during racial segregation. Nature provided a respite from social injustice throughout his childhood.
Mr. Durning left the South to attend Dartmouth College, where he graduated summa cum laude, and later studied philosophy as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford.
During the Korean War, he served as a U.S. Navy gunnery officer, then became an intelligence officer in a secret Cold War office in Munich.
Stateside once again, he attended Yale Law School and met Jean, who was working toward a master's in teaching.
"He picked me up at church," she recalled, laughing.
They married five months later and moved to Seattle in 1959. Neither had family here, but Mr. Durning carried fond memories of Seattle from his college summer travels. Before long, they became involved in local civic affairs.
"One of the reasons Seattle was an interesting place to move to is you could get involved quickly," Jean said. "In Boston or Philadelphia, you had to be part of an old family. But in Seattle, you could plunge right in."
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Israelis' violent, vulgar behavior abroad is root of growing hatred towards us that has nothing to do with anti-Semitism
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You've probably heard the controversy over the nation's Number One movie this past weekend that uses the R word in an ATTEMPT to send up actors who take roles playing disabled persons because they are "Oscar bait." Timothy Shriver of Special Olympics was on Good Morning America Monday decrying the movie and saying it's time to stop having fun with mental retardation, whatever the larger purpose may be.
No one wants to be accused of not "getting" the joke, but I have to say I agree with Shriver on this one. The N word is no longer fair game for white people, no matter their motive for using it, and people like Bill Cosby have tried to stamp out its use as a hip self-reference among young blacks as well. If for no other reason than that we want to model tolerance and inclusiveness for our kids without leaving any shades of gray, I'm with Bill and Timothy. There are lots of funny things in this world; let's leave other people's stereotyped differences out of it.
Which reminds me about the discussion over the use of the word autism. When I first started writing my column for United Press International, I got mail from readers who were trying to educate me on this point. You don't want to confuse the disability -- or different ability, or however one may choose to describe it -- with the person. That makes perfect sense to me, and (I hope) it's been a long time since I said someone was "autistic" (I sense someone googling "Olmsted and autistic" right this very minute). It's even easier to fall into its use as a preceding adjective -- an "autistic person" -- instead of keeping the order and priority straight -- a PERSON "with autism" or "who has autism."
I've also seen the point made that given the depth of the autism crisis -- you know, the epidemic that the CDC says it's not sure about, the full-court press to exonerate vaccines and mercury once and for all as the rate keeps skyrocketing -- it's more important to encourage awareness and investigation than to make too much over how it is used in a sentence. There's one way to employ the word that I really can't stand, however -- when people with autism are referred to as "autistics." How is that not a corollary of "retards"?
An example from Art Allen's book Vaccine: on page 283 he notes that "Leo Kanner wrote that the parents of autistics were generally 'mechanistic. …'" It's p-Art and parcel of Art's contempt for anyone concerned about vaccines and autism; you know you're in unfriendly territory when the book describes Bernie Rimland as "the original bitter parent" and titles one chapter "People Who Prefer Whooping Cough."
But the issue gets complicated. I see there is a site called autistics.org -- The Real Voice of Autism, which describes itself as "a project by volunteers, most of them autistic, to create a global database of information and services for persons with autism." I'm not going to get into an argument if people with autism choose to call themselves autistics, but I can't help but say I wish they would rethink the matter.
Overall, I'm not in favor of turning a condition or a description of a human being into a noun. And here's the best argument of all: In my Webster's, at least, there is no such use of the word. "Autistics" simply do not exist. So if for no other reason that it's not good English, let's say good-bye to the A word.
Dan Olmsted is Editor of Age of Autism.
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"You don't want to confuse the disability -- or different ability, or however one may choose to describe it -- with the person. That makes perfect sense to me, and (I hope) it's been a long time since I said someone was "autistic" (I sense someone googling "Olmsted and autistic" right this very minute). It's even easier to fall into its use as a preceding adjective -- an "autistic person" -- instead of keeping the order and priority straight -- a PERSON "with autism" or "who has autism.""
I call myself a blond, or a white person, or a Canadian. Does that mean I'm saying that defines me as a person?
Why should there be different rules for disability labels? I think it just makes them stand out and increase the stigma. Why not treat disability labels like any other descriptor of a person?
"There's one way to employ the word that I really can't stand, however -- when people with autism are referred to as "autistics." How is that not a corollary of "retards"?"
Because very few, if any, developmentally disabled people call themselves 'retards' and are not offended by it? Because 'retard' has a long history of being used as a school-child insult?
[...]Dan Olmsted, over at Age of Autism has been ruffling feathers because he believes we need to abolish the use of the word, "autistic." He is on the right track.
I have two children, as you know. They have autism. They are not autistic.[...]
Dear Alex, you might say, "hello" when you come in to correct us and call us "YOU guys." Really, where are your manners? And to compare autism to being gay? I fail to see the connection and I have no intention of letting that conversation continue here.
I wrote a piece for HuffPo on the Retard word here:
Rethink the use of the word 'autistics'? Have you even talked to an autistic who describes himself as autistic? I refer to myself autistic and it's not a derogatory term. Self advocates have used the term autistic to describe ourselves and we have quite a few reasons to do so.
Since autism is a neurological difference (and no one would deny this, even you guys), the word "autistic" makes the most sense. Another group of people with neurological differences is the gay community. I've never heard an accepting person describe a gay person as "a person with gayness."
This reminds me of another 'war of the words' we were introduced to 7 years ago when my son was born. My son also has achondroplasia - which is the most common form of dwarfism. It occurs typically in average heights parents, through a spontaneous genetic mutation, does not effect mental capabilities, and has a range of it's own physical limitations depending on the individual. Shortly (no pun intended) after his arrival, we became aware of how important wording is in the LP (Little People/Persons) community. "He has dwarfism - he is affected by dwarfism - he is a dwarf - he is a little person...." every family struggles with their way to describe their family member's 'disability' or 'difference'. Some people feel very strongly - some people couldn't care less. Autism has it's own problems - not one known cause, no predictable course of treatment, toxic secrets, etc. but I find the debates circle around the same issue...using one word to describe a wonderful, complex being.
I tell people my son has vaccine-induced autism.
I don't have children with autism and always agreed that all of us should say "child with autism" etc...but after reading AutisticLiving.com's strong response I would tend to agree with her. Let's not take issue with the families that are affected by autism. Let them describe it the way they feel is best.
I was recently in my health food store here in Florida, where we live 3 months out of a year, and I have a relationship with the owner of the store. I was there with my completely perfect 6 year old who was diagonsed PDD-NOS at age 4 1/2 after returning from living 3 years in Europe (didn't receive MMR at target age... instead age 4 to start preschool- she tanked)...and I was loaning out my DVDs from the Autism One conference (which I attended) and a lady standing in line saw the DVDs as the HFS lady and I were talking and she said... "Oh,... do you have an autistic child??" I cringed and replied..."No, I am blessed to have 3 very healthy, perfect children". Liv, my oldest and recovered beyond belief child responded..."and you can take that to the bank." I about lost it. I have no idea where she got that phrase from. But I think that she could see in my eyes that I wasn't happy about what someone had said about someone and somehow she just backed me up. I think that if the lady had said... "Oh dear Lord, did you have a child that was toxic and loaded with viruses and was Dx with autism?" Or even... "is your family effected by autism?" I would have been okay... but I know I froze when I heard "autistic"...
I've never understood the hub-bub about wording. I actually get a little insulted when folks "correct" me. He's my child. If I want to say he has autism, is autistic, vaccine injured, has a vaccine injury, that is my prerogative. I find it very insulting that anyone should be so bold as to decide what terms one can and cannot use to describe their own children.
Depending on the conversation, the point in the conversation, etc, I will use any one of those things.
Autistic is a word that basically means "having autism". This is why I chose it for the site AutisticLiving.com. Our lives, like it or not, are autistic. We have autism in our lives. It's nothing more than a noun vs. an adjective.
I have never heard of the word "autistic" being used in a disparaging way. I've heard "retard" used, but never autistic. I've also heard of Asperger's being used negatively, pronounced "ass-burgers" by kids, taunting kids on the spectrum. Never the word "autistic".
My son is autistic. Why? Because he has autism. That's what the word means. Folks have told me to say "I have a child with autism." Au contraire, my child is not with autism. As he opens his mouth, unable to utter a word, with his jaw locked open, trying to speak, I say he is very much against autism. So should I say "I have a child against autism"? Of course not.
Dan, I agree with 99.9% of everything you've ever written. This is a first. I'm sorry, but the "person first" language just turns my stomach. No, not because there is anything really wrong with the words themselves. Because it's an attempt to soften an issue with language. You know, remember layoffs? Now they're "resource actions". Remember "rebels" or "guerillas"? Now we call them "insurgents". How about children with autism? Now they call them "special needs".
My son doesn't have special needs. I go to a hotel and order a 6am wake-up call. That's a special need. My son is autistic, has autism, was injured by the combination of MMR and Varivax, and people want to say he has "special needs". Where I come from we call that dire need. He is in dire need of therapy. He is in dire need of supplements and treatments that our clusterf*** of a government says don't work in order to hide the misdeeds of pharmaceutical companies. He is in dire need of a special education beyond what they just throw at everyone who doesn't fit the mold. He is in dire need of the love and understanding that society OWES him for their uninformed voting choices, and intense apathy when it comes to our government and the dangerous choices they have been allowed to make for us.
My son is also in dire need of justice. No, not some monetary settlement of a few hundred thousand dollars, or a few million dollars, but justice. We have a pharmaceutical company named MERCK that is out there killing, maiming, and otherwise destroying people's lives in the name of corporate profits, and our government allows it to continue. We have rallies on the steps of Capitol Hill when we should be rallying 20 miles from my home on the front lawn of MERCK shouting "shut the **ckers down!", literally carrying torches and pitchforks. These people should be in jail, period.
Yet, my son doesn't get his justice. Instead, we not only have MERCK, but we have Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Autism Speaks, two organizations that have PARTNERED WITH MERCK on SEVERAL occasions, either directly or indirectly, and nobody seems to care. Nobody seems to notice. CHOP even has one of their little dirt bags, Paul Offit, running around playing marketing rep for these bastards.....and still, nobody cares, at least nobody who can do anything about it. Tomorrow morning there will be at least 3 families in the waiting room at CHOP awaiting an autism evaluation. It makes me want to puke.
So you say that using the word "autistic" is somehow a problem? I don't give a rat's ass what my son is called, if the choices are "autistic" and "autism". In the grand scheme of things, this has to be one of, if not THE most unimportant issue imaginable in our community. A moment of energy on this topic, is a moment of energy wasted that could have been spent on dealing with the REAL issues at hand.
I'm sorry Dan, I am just not in the mood to read about this nonsense again.
Not now, not ever.
Dan, you're great. This is just one non-issue that I cannot stand to see more time wasted on.
"'Autistics' simply do not exist."
Dan, wouldn't that be, "Autistics" simply does not exist? Not to be pedantic or anything. But autistics do exist, even if the word "autistics" doesn't.
We use descriptions of people as nouns all the time - I might be referred to as a woman, a mother, or a lawyer, though that doesn't mean I'm not also a human being. Well, except maybe for the lawyer part.
To me, the issue isn't using descriptions of people as nouns, it's using pejorative descriptions, like "retard." The description "autistic" isn't pejorative. Or is it?
I agree with Ms. Hines that there is a possibility that some people, not being familiar with autism, may think of autistic folks in a dehumanizing way. However, I don't think person-first language goes very far to remedy that. To me, it would go further for a non-autistic journalist to get some opinions from people with autism diagnoses about what they want to be called.
Although you had some fun ridiculing Dr. Chew, the issue she raised wasn't irrelevant. If you had corresponded with the people at autistics.org to get their opinion about the use of the word "autistics," you would have been treating them as people first rather than just giving lip service to the idea. Those people are worth talking to. Their opinions matter. They really are people first.
Excellent way to put it. If you don't mind, I'm going to borrow that phrase.
"My son is recovering from iatrogenic autism."
Yes, interesting conversations would ensue, I'm sure.
Thanks, JB.
I only describe my son one way to people when in public or when the need arises:
"He's recovering from autism."
It alwasy sparks an interesting conversation, and it feels appropriate and respectful to my son who was born NT and regressed after vaccines.
Please be kind and professional. We don't go on your blog and disrespect the Editors. Besides, he has spoken to more adults and children with Autism than you have. I would also like to add that I was very surprised to see you comment at all on this Blog! Its great to see that you are very interested in seeing what the Right Brain (as in Correct) is doing. We hope to hear from you again soon.
Most times I feel I need to defend my son. Within our school district, community, medical community...heck even within my family...I feel I have to 'fight' to get people to think of my son as a little boy first...autism second...if a child is diabetic, the general population thinks of a child...who suffers from diabetes...my experience with the general public has been the vast majority thinks of the autism first...which dehumanizes individuals...additionally, the general population is aware of what diabetes is...whereas they believe what they watch on Lifetime regarding autism...I agree with this article completely...thank you, Dan!
I think we should call people what they want to be called. If someone wants to be called "a person with autism," they should be called a "person with autism." If someone wants to be called an "autistic person" or an "autistic," that's what they should be called.
I don't think preferring the adjective means identifying oneself solely by one's diagnosis. It can be one adjective among many to describe a person. (My disability is as much a part of me as my gender, culture, or anything else I identify as--no more, no less).
Timely article... I spoke to the new person who is transporting my son (who has Autism) to his Adult program. I was explaining about his Autism and some of the things Andy likes or how he might react if confused or frightened. They guy interupted me and said "don't worry I have experience... I drive Autistics on the school bus."
My only thought was "Oh great! he has experience with 'Autistics'"
I can honestly say that I felt less secure not more.
I wonder whether there's actually a semantic or grammar-related issue here? For example, it would NOT be correct to say that a person is "cancerous," as it would be confusing and hard to understand (do you mean the whole person is filled with cancer? are you using the expression as a metaphor?). Same goes for many diseases (is there an adjectival form of psoriasis?).
I actually ran a poll on my autism.about.com site at one point and asked for people's opinions on this very issue. Interestingly, the result was an almost even split for and against the use of "autistic" versus "person with autism." I was glad - only because, while I try to use person-first language as much as possible (and you really can't offend anyone saying "person with autism"), About.com limits character count in many of its headlines! "Person with autism" is just awfully long when you need a snappy 30-character headline...
In short, while I think Dan is correct in his assessment that people-first language is always preferable - it's not all that horrendous to occasionally bend the rule!
"Autistics" categorizes our children. It defines them by their condition. Then it becomes easy to assign characteristics to this group and see them as different.
While there are stories in the news today about affected children being forced off planes, banned from church, and asked to leave restaurants, we can only guess what the future will hold for the upcoming adults on the spectrum. Will "autistics" be seen as unwanted burdens or as victims of unsafe vaccines?
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Hi Jenny,
You said-
"If it becomes an insult, sure, but right now that is just not the case."
I would disagree. As we have seen in the news, Savage, airplanes, churches, restaurants,classrooms, etc, are not seeing people with an autism diagnosis as individuals who are either ill with vaccine injuries-mitochondria issues(environmental) or creative adults with a twist on social skills ("aspies"-as they have called themselves). I don't see lots of compassion.
and this-
"FOR OTHER REASONS I am for ditching the word. Let's call this disorder what it is... metabolic disorder."
I am not sure what the other reasons might be but metabolic is more than likely a downstream issue. How do you feel about the roman numeral I as vaccine injured or poisoned? Under that would be many of the biomedical issues seen, including mitochondria, calcium/glutamates, oxidative stress, etc--
"If Mr. Olmsted has spoken to an autistic individual at autistics.org, it would be well of him (if he chooses, of course), to indicate such." -- from Kristina Chew.
What is it with Kristina Chew? She seems to be drawn like a homing pigeon to false and irrelevant issues and to pose them in the most precious, accusatory and upside-down-and-backward way possible. Here we are instructed that IF I had talked to an individual at autistics.org, it would be well of me to say so, IF I so chose. OK, Kristina, I think I can tease out the point here: I didn't talk to anyone at autistics.org. I guess this has something to do with anything because ... well, why, exactly? The only way I can cope with this kind of rhetorical reverse-back-flip sniping is to say, Since I did not talk to anyone at autistics.org in exercising my first Amendment Rights to discuss my own views about the proper use of a word that does not appear in my dictionary, I would be unable, well of me as it might be, to indicate such, even if I so chose. Can we now talk about something that really matters? For example, is calling people "autistics" actually fine with Kristina Chew? That is the issue at hand. It would be well of her, if she believed that it is, and if she so chose, to say so. -- dan olmsted
Usually, when I bring up my son, I say that he has iatrogenic autism.
Because at this point in time, "autistic" is used to describe individuals with autism, whereas the word "retarded" is said in a way to mean "stupid" --not "a stunting of growth or development".
There is a big difference.
If it catches on that calling someone "autistic" is a way to make fun of their behavior, then I will reconsider my opinion of it. If it becomes an insult, sure, but right now that is just not the case.
FOR OTHER REASONS I am for ditching the word. Let's call this disorder what it is... metabolic disorder.
I must admit, I really don't get it on the "autistic" part. "Diabetic" is the same type of thing. I guess "has diabetes" is politically correct. "Paraplegic" would be "with paraplegia". So, "autistic" is not unique.
I do try to say "has autism", but find myself using the term "autistic" too.
I do think it is a good thing that we are having this discussion. I am sure there are adults with autism (or autistic adults) on both sides of this discussion.
Whenever I'm obliged to describe Michaela's condition, I say "she has a diagnosis of autism." But she is not defined by that diagnosis, she is her own person and autism is something, as we all know here, that happened to her. Unfortunately, some rather sad folks have decided that they like having autism as their identity. That's their business, but just like the rappers who like to use the N word, that doesn't make their conduct something that the rest of us should accept as respectable.
True success in the science of this issue will come when we can put the Kanner/Rutter formulation of this developmenal brain injury behind us and define the problem more precisely in terms of its causation and biology. In the meantime, the notion that there is a single disease entity here (and not an amorphous set of genetic mutations tha produce "autisms") is the one durable concept in autism science, so we'll need to stick with Kanner a while longer and just make sure we get the grammar right when we use the A word.
*Dan, I have mentioned your well written piece on my blog.
Given that the title of my blog is The A Word:A Mother Confronts Autism, I am conflicted by Dan Olmsted's suggestion. This cover name was intended to highlight the elephant in the room, better known as autism, autistic, or autistic like tendencies. I originated this title due to my initial fear of the diagnosis for my son; in fact, my "flagship" piece for this blog conjured every A word appropriate to define my Agony (yes, another A word). I pledged to be my son's Ally and Advocate for him. Twenty years later my passion is enhanced by my Allegiance to him. Perhaps it is in my nature to cling to a word, like a comfort zone, more for explanation than excuse.
I do, however cringe at references to the "R" word. Earlier this year, I blogged about the comedian Chris Rock, who's monologue on Saturday Night Live was highly offensive. He talked about the notion of having a minority in the White House; his response was that "we already do have a minority in the White House, a retard." I ask how was this okay? Was it because the general public is disgruntled with Bush? Should a political satire mock innocent human beings? Why should a population of people who cannot defend themselves be the brunt of that joke? Where was Lorne Michaels, producer of SNL? Where was NBC? There was no outrage, no CNN coverage, no blame.
Do we, as a nation contour our responses to politically correct "nouns du jour"? Does the movie industry stretch poetic license for financial gain? You betcha, because in this world "money talks, nobody walks", and if the hype for Tropic Thunder induces ticket sales, it's a win win. Now, if some of those proceeds would be donated to autism research, my judge and jury would deem that the quintessential community service!
Our son does not have Autism...Autism has him. He is not "Autistic" he has been damaged. I would say this to the Neurologist everytime we saw him. I would also tell the Dr. "look into his eyes he is in there, I can see him, he is in there."
Last year after 10 years of treating our son and watching us with our son the Neurologist took my hand and told me I was right that he was in there.
We did not ask for this title "Autistic" or "Autism", it was placed on our son by those supposedly smarter than us. It is not the Autism that our parents heard about. If the rate of Autism continues to climb, there will be few families unaffected. It is not something to make fun of, it is not something that should be the butt of a joke. Your are so correct there is plenty of humor our there without using the most vulnerable of our citizens as the joke.
Slightly off topic, but I wanted to share this with you guys. This is about the funniest thing I've ever read. I don't know if you've seen it or not, but it sums up the Vaccine-Thugs to a "T"
We now know what Ken Reibel and the rest of the Vaccine Thugs are on!
After reading some posts, I have to add to mine. I would even say that the description-"she/he has autism" is not correct. There is "no autism" as Dan said, it is a list of behaviors. My daughter does not have autism. It is a term for having the behaviors--but that's the issue. The behaviors really describe an injury for many. For most, a vaccine or environmental assault.
My daughter is a redhead which is a description of her hair color. Calling her a term, like autistic is naming her for a group of behavioral descriptions-
It also does not describe the biological mechanisms going on inside the body. Like addiction..the "disease concept" vs a "mental disorder" of the weak willed. Behaviors unfortunately do not give justice to the real illness. Recovery from both is the goal.
Thank you for continuing to defend our children, no matter what their age, their lack of speech or idiosyncratic speech, their odd and stereotypical movements, their physical pain and emotional pain, their sensory bombardments, and their inability to defend themselves.
The paradigm shift needs to keep shifting right out of DSM.
I understand the idea behind person first language, and I often do use it to describe my son out of sensitivity to the audience I'm addressing, but calling him autistic doesn't make me view him as a disability instead of a person any more than calling him a blondie means I'm ignoring his personhood for the sake of his hair color.
I think in this case, it's parents and care givers that are setting the terminology agenda, not the people in question. Every adult with autism I've asked about this (and I've asked a lot) is just fine with the term autistic. In fact, most of them are even ok with "Aspie" and "Autie," which are words I have a hard time getting behind.
I don't think it's the same as the word "retard" which has become so charged with negative connotations that even people who fit the clinical definition are now referred to as having "MR."
But at the end of the day, I do still have an adorable person with childhood, person of Caucasian, person with blondness, person with maleness, person with autism to hug and kiss - no matter how you want to refer to him.
If Mr. Olmsted has spoken to an autistic individual at autistics.org, it would be well of him (if he chooses, of course), to indicate such.
"Why don't you try contacting the people who own autistics.org and ask their opinion?"
The true real autistics can choose to call themselves whatever they want. My son is vaccine-injured, NOT autistic, and as a parent, I strongly object to ANYONE referring to him this way. See the comment made by the 10 year old? He's not autistic, he is vaccine-injured and by golly he objects!! Point taken??
Dan, I was first corrected on my usage in this vein about 10 years ago. At the time I thought it was nonsense -- being a very non-PC person myself. But now that you've described the issue so succinctly I think I'll change my position and stop using the phrase "he's autistic" when describing my son with autism.
I visited autistics.org, the 'Voice of Autism', and looked around a little bit.
I notice they talk about ASA referring to themselves as the voice of autism. ASA isn't the voice of autism. They're the voice of Autism Speaks. Which is, in turn, the voice of pharma and the public health bureaucracies. They're sort of like the little scrawny kids that do the bidding of the big bully partly because they benefit (to a lesser degree than the bully, but a little) and partly because they're afraid not to. If I'm able to see eye to eye about anything with most of the people who've created the page—they are self proclaimed of the 'neurodiversity movement'—I suspect that this is as far as it goes.
I did also like 'the real meaning of autism prevention'.
But right below that I see a green poster on the page which I really don't like at all that says 'odds of an autistic person feeling like garbage when reading autism epidemic hype'.
I've never really cared much about the use of the term 'autistic', versus saying 'a person with autism'. Seems to me there's too much else to be really angry about. Lord knows I don't speak for all people with autism. I don't believe that any one does, or any organization. I don't think they all think all that much alike. What follows are just my own personal thoughts on the matter.
As one who strongly believes that environmental triggers contribute greatly to autism, I can't help but draw a parallel between this situation and that of the discovery, widely publicized when I was a child back in the sixties, that cigarettes contributed greatly to lung cancer. I can't help but ask myself "would anyone with lung cancer have ever pretended that it was a perfectly normal thing." Oh sure, there were people whose cancer wasn't so severe at first. In that sense, there was the same spectrum as you have with autism. But who would have said, to themselves or to anyone, "there's nothing wrong with me. I'm just different."
So much of what I see those in the neurodiversity movement doing involves assuring themselves, over and over again, that they're fine. That there's nothing wrong with them. They can tell themselves, it seems to me, that it's normal for a toddler to be non-verbal, to bang their head against the walls, to smear their feces on the walls. I guess I'm just not autly enough but I'm sorry, I just can not and will not go there.
Would you ever have heard of a person with lung cancer, especially after discovering that the two packs of cigarettes they smoked for twenty years was the major cause of their lung cancer, going on about how it's only their own genes that should be considered—"and oh by the way, there's nothing at all wrong with my genes and there's nothing at all wrong with me and anyway we're not sick at all"? I don't remember ever seeing or hearing people like that.
Were there people with lung cancer who felt like garbage because there were those who were upset about the fact that cigarettes cause cancer and that there were so very many people being diagnosed with it, more and more as years went by? I don't remember them. It seems to me that it would be absurd. If I had lung cancer and knew that I'd gotten it from the cigarettes I'd smoked all those years, I would say that the people who made me feel like garbage were the people who'd profitted from the sale of cigarettes. Not the people who were upset about it.
the r-word needs to be banned!!!!!!!
"Thus speaks a man who has not spoken to one autistic adult on the subject."
Kev, how could you possibly *KNOW* whether Dan has done this or not, unless of course, you have All-Knowing-I-See-Everything-And-That-Includes-You-Dan-Olmsted Superhero powers we don't know about.
"Why don't you try contacting the people who own autistics.org and ask their opinion?"
Why should he? Dan also has an opinion and he just expressed it.
Ain't the First Amendment grand?
Thank you, Dan. My son, who is ten years old, has autism. He explained to us one day, after a visit to the neurologist who often says things like "autistics have been shown to...", that he hates being described that way. He says that we don't call people with ADD "hypers" or people with dyslexia "dyslexics" so why does he have to be lumped under a name like that?
He certainly convinced me and we changed the way we speak about it.
Even if you believe the argument of the neurodiversity movement, why boil your entire existance down to one word? Doesn't that negate their other traits - what if they are also musical, artistic, joyous, terse...It is simply another label that is not needed and segregates people. Autistic is an adjective...we should use it as such.
Thus speaks a man who has not spoken to one autistic adult on the subject.
Why don't you try contacting the people who own autistics.org and ask their opinion?
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There is a difference, however, between overpricing of those temporary shelters (that look like outhouses) and use of substandard materials and design (scrimping on costs to meet budget requirements). The houses for 24 families are built of wood, plywood, GI sheets, and concrete (for the raised flooring) and cost the government P836,000, discounted from P960,000 when the contractors were persuaded to donate their profits.
Public Works Secretary Rogelio Singson was quoted as saying it was possible the contractors did not establish or follow "specified" standards. But as the person in charge, he bore the brunt of widespread suspicion that as usual, DPWH is in on the age-old racket of immoral kickbacks which mark government projects like a loud tattoo – especially as, right on cue, Secretary Ping Lacson echoed reports of "one politician" demanding a 30-35 percent cut from contractors. One politician has openly denied the charges, apparently to kill the story before it would kill his reputation, rightly or wrongly. Is this Yolanda's collateral damage to our psyche? We suspect every other one of stealing and then selling imported relief goods, we silently accuse government workers of repacking bags of food and clothing, we wonder how many million dollars will be lost between the devil and the deep blue sea.
Happily for Mr. Singson, he has opposition Rep. Rodolfo Albano III to vouch for his integrity, and an architect and urban planner of world renown to come to his defense. Jun Palafox says he did not accuse Mr. Singson of corruption when he "commented on the shelters being undersized and substandard." But after a telephone conversation where the DPWH chief was "made aware" of international standards based on Mr. Palafox's experience, the secretary "went to the disaster site to check, and initiated (steps) to improve the designs."
That's what doers do that doesn't land them in the papers, Jun Palafox: "I worked with Babes Singson before, when he was BCDA chairman, with no (taint of) corruption. We need him in our nation-building."
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New Archery Shop coming to Rockford IL Area.
There is a new shop in the Rockford Area and should be open soon. The address is 8289W Burden Road in the old Fishers Appliance building at 251 and Forest Hills Road.
The shop is called Obsession Archery. There will be a multi-lane 20 yard indoor range, possibly video in the future. Current bow lines are Hoyt and Bowtech.
As stated above, the shop is not ready yet, construction is still underway. Hoping to be open by mid September.
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BlackBerry Unveils BES12, the 'New Foundation' of Enterprise Mobility
Today in Barcelona, BlackBerry unveiled what it describes as "the new foundation of mobility enterprise."
As part of BlackBerry's strategy to extend beyond EMM to an application-based environment and ecosystem that provides a highly productive end-user experience, the company's forthcoming BES12 unifies BES10 and BES5 to one platform.
Slated to launch by the end of this year, with BES12 BlackBerry will target a global market that IDC has forecasted to reach $4.8 billion by 2017. In a report by Forrester Research, authors Christian Kane and Michele Pelino wrote, "The wide variety of mobile devices and increased mobile application adoption require enterprises to broaden their mobility strategy beyond the simple management of devices, to include developing, deploying, securing, and managing mobile applications of all genres and capabilities," which is what the Canadian smartphone maker is aiming to do with BES12.
"BES10 is the only mobility management solution that meets the highest security demands of regulated industries and is also flexible enough for BYOD," explains John Sims, President, Global Enterprise Solutions at BlackBerry. "This value proposition is why the new BES12 architecture is designed to ensure that the more than 80,000 existing BES customers can seamlessly migrate forward."
"As we execute on our long term vision, we will offer all customers the opportunity to move forward with us," he continued. "The investment customers make in BlackBerry today will be a valuable investment for the future."
BES12 adds new core capabilities and enhances old ones, and BlackBerry has also developed several new apps for the enterprise as well, includng eBBM, an enterprise-specific version of the company's world-famous instant messaging system.
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