Offensive book found for sale

I think that for some parents, or even some people in general, is that they want what they don't have, and they are so focused on what they don't have, that they miss out on what they do have.

Like you had the potential for fun, but your dad missed out on that, because he was so focused on the things that you couldn't do, rather than support what you could do. No child wants to experience their parent's frustration and disappointment, but equally, the parent could have reacted and handled things better. I mean they're the adult with the matured brain, so they could have figured something out.

I've just had a bit of a break whilst I adjust to my new(ish) job! 

I was only thinking yesterday: What happened to Michelle?

I THINK that's a good thing? 

I've been absent from this forum for a while. I don't know why this particular topic grabbed my attention. I love a bit of info dumping though! 

A sadness for me, is that my dad never really caught on to the potential for fun that I represented.

His whole parenting experience was one of frustration and disappointment. 

Yeah me too. I mean I don't expect all parents to be positive all the time, but I think that even if his son had cancer, that this father wouldn't have taken care of his son any better. I just hope this father matures enough to realize that his son is worth infinitely more than whatever he bought for his yard.   

I think I heard of a term before, that all children deserve parents, but not all parents deserve children. 

I had hoped it was from the perspective of an overwhelmed parent that was struggling to do their best. Now sickened that it was written by someone undeserving to call themselves a parent.

For those parents I would definitely swing a boot.

i concurr

Such an intelligent response I Sperg.  I was beginning to believed we'd regressed back to the dark ages of book burners, witch finders, and torch and pitchfork mobs screaming for everyone to be publicly executed. 

When you voluntarily provide a link out of the goodness of your heart it stops everyone doing their own internet searches and saves a tiny bit of bandwidth and a fair bit of human time...

As well as pandering to our laziness... :c)

Well I didn't just want to judge the book by it's cover, so I read the preview of the book because I wanted to give this father a fair chance, but the contents of the book is as terrible as the title would suggest. He just seems really fed up that he has to deal with his son and his autism.

I think that you should write about your experiences as well, because there's likely many instances of bad treatment towards those who are autistic. 

Listen to the Podcast The Boring Talks. They have an episode on Amazon and Ebay book pricing algorithms and it will explain all! 

I'm a bit of a free speech extremist, so I don't agree with banning books, even if I vehemently disagree with what they've said.

But it looks it's only available pre-owned for £248.94, so it must be out of print. I doubt there's much demand for it, and nobody's going to pay that much for it.

I'm wedded to the illusion that I have discovered I have a great deal of previously unused personal power.

I've also been attracted to the notion of putting it to some use.. :c)

Different strokes, for different folks.

Wow! Thanks for reading the book and giving us a description of it's contents. I was going to give it a go, but it sound way to much like the parenting I experienced, to make it attractive.

I've considered /started writing about about my experiences as an Autistic child and young man. The working title of the few pages I've created so far (which is probably as far as I'll ever get) is, "Confessions of a Fist Magnet"... 

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"! 

There are loads of threads about this book on Google and now you have introduced another. It’s all publicity that will help this book be marketed

I ignore things which I don’t have to engage with 

oh wow....  a book and its £248? .... damn man, i thought waterstones was expensive selling books for £10 lol