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Originally Posted by KSigMason
So I listened to the show today and watched the various clips all over the internet. It's not so much shame on Michael Savage. It's shame on you for posting this cut & paste mess that is taking his words out of context or shame on the source that you pulled this from for the same reasons.
He is defending children from being over medicated. He wasn't saying that Autism doesn't exist, but that it is over diagnosed and it is, just like many diseases. I mean I look back at when I was in school and from how I acted I could have been diagnosed with autism or ADD, but luckily I have, what Dr Savage and Dr Breggin both point out that is lacking in most diagnosed people, involved parents. Bad parenting is a key factor in all these things - most parents are either uninformed on the dangers of the medication given to children or are willing to let meds be the parent and subdue their children. I am not saying these diseases don't exist, but not at the level that we see today. I had more to say, but I have had a long day and I am tired.
I love how you all jumped to a false conclusion.
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Then please explain to me how is this out of context:
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Now, the illness du jour is autism. You know what autism is? 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. -- Michael Savage (verbatim) -- July 16, 2008
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So you support his statement that only 1% of autism diagnoses are real? So you think
my child is just a "brat"? Does that mean you think I'm a lousy father because my child is in the autistic spectrum? Then how do you explain my other child who is as normal as can be?
Savage knew
exactly what he was saying, and he is going to take responsibility for it. If you want to be an apologist for this kind of nonsense, go right ahead.
Just don't expect me to have respect for you, because you just burned it.