Offensive book found for sale

not sure that will work. if it was amazons own product perhaps it would, but if its a users then i doubt it. anyone can sell anything they want on their site, so long as its a real product. the only thing theyd remove is fake products or scams. its a free market site, they wont censor anything, its supply and demand, buy and sell. theyd only take note of this if it was their own product that they themselves are personally selling from the amazon warehouse.

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.

wow that is really nasty of him.

There are children with more severe forms of autism, and parents can be overwhelmed by it, and I can understand that. But what I can't understand is this "struggling" parent HAD THE TIME TO WRITE AN ENTIRE BOOK complaining and ranting about his own life, rather than take that same amount of time to support and actually care about his own son.  

From what I could read from the book (I read it to give the book a fair chance, despite the title), is that he sees his son as a bother, as  something that he has to deal with, as not "perfect." The book is all about "I, I, I, me, me, me, my, my, my" and the focus is all on himself and complaining about his son, rather than caring about his son. He can't see things from his son's perspective. He's selfish and narcissistic. And you know what, by him having the guts to publish something like this, and putting THAT kind of title, and actually charging money for it, is completely narcissistic!

On his son's 2nd birthday, his father spent loads of money, bought tons of stuff for this big yard party, invited 50 people, and instead of having an ego boost as some great father at a great party, the opposite happened, and his son cried (because he was swarmed by 50 strangers out of the blue, so who wouldn't cry), and the father was more concerned about his own retutation being ruined and being looked down upon by others, than he was about his own son. 

I mean, he willingly spent all this money on a freaking party, but he didn't like spending money on trying to find support for his own son's autism. And when his second child was born, his daughter, he was trying to check if she had any problems (like autism), and then thanked god that she was born "perfect." That's really low. And he empathised with the parents who considered suicide, and wanting to taking their autistic child down with them. That's wrong.  

And when his son had an allergic reaction, he described dragging his swollen and puffy son home, as if he was putting down his son as some kind of loser in life. That his son had another problem on top of what he already had. And his father was bothered by the notion that because his son took the allergy medication and napped during the day, it will make him stay up all night. I mean allergies can be lethal, and yet the father cared more about his son being awake at night bothering him, than he did about his son's well-being.

And how the father wrote that it's the "fight against autism" rather than "support for autism." Like come on, that kid needs a real father, not some father who puts more time and effort into writing a book with a terrible title, than he does about supporting his son. If I were to write a book, it'll be about how this father is worse than cancer.

I'm part of the online autistic community and I don't have utter disbelief or feel outrage by the availability of this book on Amazon. In fact, I would never have known about this book but for your post about it. The irony of this kind of book-burning mentality is that it always has the opposite effect to what was intended and ends up promoting the offending articles to a wider audience.

*** I've removed the rest of my comment because it's a mistake to get involved with these debates on censorship, and dealing with online torch and pitchfork mobs is too exhausting for me***

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

How about instead of criticism,  there's support. 

That is outrageous pricing! 

I feel there are probably a lot of parents of autistic children who feel this way. Silencing them is not helpful. this book is an opportunity to challenge the odious viewpoints that exist out there by bringing them into the light and criticising them.

Strange that my Twitter feeds have not mentioned it.  Looking on Amazon  it was published in 2008 and is available at the outrageous cost of £248, it also has 89% 1 star rating so probably nobody will read it.

My father would do this exercise with me as a teenager. He would take a controversial subject that had recently been in the news, then encourage me to see it from different perspectives. I can understand why you are upset, completely. I can also understand that this book might have been written by a parent who is overwhelmed by the needs of their autistic children, who doesn't know how to help them. Is likely so tired, feeling lost and may really need some support. It could be that they wish their children had an illness, such as cancer, that was treatable, that had a defined set of plans and actions. That could be more easily understood,  from their view point.

I'm not taking sides, I'm not trying to tell you that how you feel is unwarranted, because your feelings are important . I'm hoping to perhaps help you see a possible reason for the book, and it's title. That's all.

Hope you feel better soon.