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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  • I still say the book should NOT be available. It should be removed. Its utterly disgraceful! 

  • Rather than getting upset, since the book DOES exist, if you don't like it's contents and feel it is spreading a poisonous set of ideals, then perhaps you need to consider writing it's antidote? Let YOUR view of autism be heard, and explain why autistic children are better than cancerous children?

    Like you, I hold fairly strong views and Ideals in life, which are constantly challenged on a day to day basis by aspects of "mainstream thinking". I see all sorts of amoral and short term thinking and actions being promoted, which if taken onboard by the gullible, will ruin their lives but for now, these things are "popular" and like you, I am outraged and wish to press for change. 

    But muzzling & suppressing people, is never the answer. Humanity has lots of ideas, and they can be quite "wrong for their time"

    A very good example of this, is how we deal with Covid. Someone has decided that vaccinations are the way we do that, and that successful treatment is "unpossible". So any discussion of treatment protocols or alternative strategies to vaccination, is not allowed, and in fact even a private non-published you tube video questioning the current medical strategy (which is not working at all well, just in case no-one had noticed) gets deleted by google.

    So their "book burning strategy" serves the public interest very well, those pesky vaccine hesitant people are effectively quieted so the public doesn't get distracted from the plan.

    I am not pushing an agenda here, although my own perspective is probably obvious, but trying to make the point that all points of view need to be heard, even the objectionable ones.

    In the case of the "antivaxxers" & "horse paste pushers" (reminds me I must get around to ordering Ivermectin, they say it shortens the whole covid experience dramatically, adn teh vitamin D3 oral spray they told me I needed to help "ward it off" has worked like gangbusters to improve my gerneral health in minor but important ways, so that works for me at least) IF COVID mutates into a real killer form that teh vax doesn;t protect against (like delta, but proper deadly) suddenly google (and the rest of us) will want those alternative treatments to go mainstream REAL FAST. 

    If this Author feels so strongly about autism, that he/she's* got off her behind and written a provocatively titled book about it, I'm tempted to want to read the thing! 

    (But not at 200 quid a pop, F.O.C. is more my style, as far as education goes. "Education" by it's very nature is free of charge, all you have to do is pick it up and brush off the dust. Some people prefer to pay for a very specific and limited form of education, and claim it makes them wiser than you about your problems. (They are not always right, I have found..) 

    * Has not communication got considerably harder since instead of picking a gender pronoun that most likely to fit for a given exposition, you now have to pause every time and consider whether the simple use of "he" or "she" is going to cause "offence"! 

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  • Rather than getting upset, since the book DOES exist, if you don't like it's contents and feel it is spreading a poisonous set of ideals, then perhaps you need to consider writing it's antidote? Let YOUR view of autism be heard, and explain why autistic children are better than cancerous children?

    Like you, I hold fairly strong views and Ideals in life, which are constantly challenged on a day to day basis by aspects of "mainstream thinking". I see all sorts of amoral and short term thinking and actions being promoted, which if taken onboard by the gullible, will ruin their lives but for now, these things are "popular" and like you, I am outraged and wish to press for change. 

    But muzzling & suppressing people, is never the answer. Humanity has lots of ideas, and they can be quite "wrong for their time"

    A very good example of this, is how we deal with Covid. Someone has decided that vaccinations are the way we do that, and that successful treatment is "unpossible". So any discussion of treatment protocols or alternative strategies to vaccination, is not allowed, and in fact even a private non-published you tube video questioning the current medical strategy (which is not working at all well, just in case no-one had noticed) gets deleted by google.

    So their "book burning strategy" serves the public interest very well, those pesky vaccine hesitant people are effectively quieted so the public doesn't get distracted from the plan.

    I am not pushing an agenda here, although my own perspective is probably obvious, but trying to make the point that all points of view need to be heard, even the objectionable ones.

    In the case of the "antivaxxers" & "horse paste pushers" (reminds me I must get around to ordering Ivermectin, they say it shortens the whole covid experience dramatically, adn teh vitamin D3 oral spray they told me I needed to help "ward it off" has worked like gangbusters to improve my gerneral health in minor but important ways, so that works for me at least) IF COVID mutates into a real killer form that teh vax doesn;t protect against (like delta, but proper deadly) suddenly google (and the rest of us) will want those alternative treatments to go mainstream REAL FAST. 

    If this Author feels so strongly about autism, that he/she's* got off her behind and written a provocatively titled book about it, I'm tempted to want to read the thing! 

    (But not at 200 quid a pop, F.O.C. is more my style, as far as education goes. "Education" by it's very nature is free of charge, all you have to do is pick it up and brush off the dust. Some people prefer to pay for a very specific and limited form of education, and claim it makes them wiser than you about your problems. (They are not always right, I have found..) 

    * Has not communication got considerably harder since instead of picking a gender pronoun that most likely to fit for a given exposition, you now have to pause every time and consider whether the simple use of "he" or "she" is going to cause "offence"! 

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