Color me shocked, even though I know I shouldn’t be, but I’m a little blown away that Dennis Leary would come out in a book with absolute vile comments about autistic children around the world, a subject that I happen to be close to.  from his book:

“There is a huge boom in autism right now because inattentive mothers and competitive dads want an explanation for why their dumb-ass kids can’t compete academically, so they throw money into the happy laps of shrinks . . . to get back diagnoses that help explain away the deficiencies of their junior morons. I don’t give a [bleep] what these crackerjack whack jobs tell you – yer kid is NOT autistic. He’s just stupid. Or lazy. Or both.”

I’m not one for calling for boycotting, I will leave that up to others, all I can say is i am glad I don’t watch his show and contribute to him making gobs of money so that he can afford to make statements like this.  Autism destroys families, it’s serious, it’s real and it deserves far better than this, and so do those that it touches. 

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