Family of Boy with Autism Receive Ghastly Letter

My fear is for this woman's children.
There is your next generation!
This is what they are taught!

This could be my daughter (who is autistic) this monster who calls herself a mother is describing. She is just another member of the pro-death culture we live in. Abby Johnson's recent blog post describes the pro-death supporters in the Texas legislature in this way, "their mind is no longer their own. Once evil breaks in, your thoughts, your words, and your behavior is not controlled by you." Evil has certainly taken over this person and is controlling them and so while this piece hurts me on a very personal level and, yes, makes me very angry, I know I must pray for her and her soul as well as for the boy she talks of and his family.

I saw this letter over the weekend on an Aspergers Support page on facebook. Apparently, the police in that Canadian city are investigating the letter and they have not ruled out bringing charges against the writer. She's a coward desperately in need of prayer.

I hope this is fake for publicity. If it isn't this person is indescribably selfish and deserves to be investigated criminally. They were too weak to even put their name to it, and the kid with autism is worth a lot more than she is.

As a mother of one child with Asperger's and other children who have had a variety of physical and mental challenges over the years, this absolutely breaks my heart. There were times, years ago, before my son's diagnosis that I felt so tired and hopeless and totally wrung out, that a letter like that could have pushed me over the brink into total despair or suicide. Seriously. My son is doing well today – but if I had received a letter like that when he was 7 or 8, I might still be in a locked mental health facility in a totally catatonic state.

I choose to believe it is a hoax, because I refuse to believe that THAT level of evil has entered the world.

Here is a TV news article about this with a video interview with the mother. So sad. http://www.citynews.ca/2013/08/18/family-in-shock-after-hate-letter-targets-teen-with-autism/

Amy Giglio… Thanks for the link to the city news video. It gave me "relief." The police are looking for this woman and the family will press charges when she's found. The best part is that the "community" this woman claimed to be speaking for was also up in arms and banded together to support the family and 13 year old "Max." It was heartwarming… God brought about good from a malevolent act.

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On Dateline NBC a few years ago, they showed a case where
the police were investigating similar notes being received
by a teacher at a school (and the notes were designed
to look as of they were sent by another teacher).

It was later found that the 'taunted and tortured teacher'
had actually sent the notes to herself as a cry for attention
and public sympathy due to feeling overwhelmed with her
life (and no other 'teacher' or 'outsider' had sent it to her).

Also, a couple of years ago a man claimed that he began
to receive 'religious hate mail' our of nowhere from “an
unknown neighbor" (even though there was no history
of any of the neighbors having harassed, disliked or
shown bigotry or hatred toward his family before) and
within a few weeks his wife ended up "attacked by an
unknown stranger, possibly the "neighbor", and killed".

It was later found that he felt his wife was a "burden"
and had composed and sent "the mysterious letters"
himself as a set up and cover for the crime he was
planning in order to "set himself free" from someone
that 'he' (not his neighbors) saw as a "burden" in life.

In both cases, entire innocent-communities (even if
it were seen as just 'one' phantom-person within that
community) were placed with suspicion and blame for
something that they did not do and would never have
even thought of doing — simply because someone who
felt they wanted to 'escape' their own "burdens" in life
were setting up both the communities and the family
member from whom they wanted to be set free.

In addition, there have been story after story of
late of the many parents and caregivers of autistic
children who — feeling overwhelmed with taking
care of a person with severe needs and yet also
wanting to gain public attention, pity, sympathy,
support, and a type of victim and/or hero status
— have plotted for weeks, months and even years
to 'get free of their burden' in such as way as to
look both innocent and pitiable (and this is often
done by pointing-the-finger at innocent-strangers).

My point is that — UNTIL the police investigate to see
IF this "mysterious note" is actually LEGITIMATE —
this community should NOT be seen as having
some sort of hate-monger living in it's midst.

This 'mysterious note' seems to have a far "too personal"
touch to it to have been composed by any 'man' and / or
even by 'woman' who would have been a 'stranger' or
a 'near stranger' to this family — and, until it is PROVEN
that it IS IN FACT from "someone in the neighborhood",
it seems unreasonable to assume that the neighbors are
not (possibly) being set-up just so that someone who
may feel overwhelmed with life can literally 'script' a
situation in which to garner both pity and attention.

It's not that I'm not trying to be 'sympathetic' toward
the family to whom the memo was directed … it's just
that … the situation of "setting things up in order to
get public sympathy and attention" has been found
to have occurred so frequently in the past number
of years that — unless someone has a video of
a situation occurring — many times it should be
considered as possibly "one of the usual suspects".

http://www.bullyonline.org/workbully/munchaus.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim_playing

http://www.salon.com/2008/06/04/exhausted_caregiver/

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/08/20/letter-telling-ontario-family-to-euthanize-autistic-son-not-a-hate-crime-police/

http://www.post-journal.com/page/content.detail/id/609417/When-Feeling-Overwhelmed–Caregivers-Should-Seek-Help.html?nav=5208

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