Offensive book found for sale

Greetings fellow Autistics. I'm an avid member of the Autistic community on Twitter and this morning of Friday 3rd September 2021 it was brought to my attention that a certain book found on Amazon is for sale called 'I wish my kids had cancer' written by Michael Alan about a parent's struggles with an Autistic child/children. He has even gone as far as calling ASD an epidemic. Needless to say that as you can imagine this has caused utter disbelief and outrage amongst the Autistic community on social media and I have already made Amazon aware and via customer services have requested said product to be removed from sales by of a very strongly worded complaint. I just wanted to make my fellow Autistics aware that said product is out there as a fair warning. If you'd like to complain on Amazon via customer services to request its removal the option is there, hopefully if enough people can speak up to Amazon to demand it remove said product, they will listen. I myself have found this very disturbing and triggering and has urged me to act. In case you do see it about on Twitter, I wanted to forewarn you of its existence and so you'd all be a little more prepared but be understandably shocked at the disrespect, disregard and offense that it contains. I cannot tell you how utterly speechless and overwhelmed I am about this. Its despicable and its appalling. We need to speak out about this. 

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  • For those parents I would definitely swing a boot.

  • The 2 aren’t mutually exclusive and there are some views that are commonly held by parents that are in my view morally wrong.

    im talking about the kind of parents who won’t vaccinate their kids because they might get autism. As if being dead was a better option.

    the kind of parent that doesn’t seem to aknowledge their kids life is more than an accessory to their own.

    the kind of parent who has kids because they want someone to support them in their old age or who believe kids are a guarantee of unconditional love and affection. Or those who think kids are some kind of malleable puppet they can thrust some sort of notion of a legacy upon. Something to live through vicariously.

    people like that shouldn’t have children and when it turns out their child is autistic they act as if their child has betrayed them by being different, by not fitting in with their intentions and expectations for them.

    the best support for parents like that is a good kick up the pants.