How did McCain keep getting this wrong!

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How did McCain keep getting this wrong!
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Wed, 10-15-2008 - 10:43pm
I was under the impression Sara Palin's child had downs not autism. How could he keep screwing this up?
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Thu, 10-16-2008 - 6:32pm

I think this is one point McCain got wrong. She doesn't understand autism any better than anyone else. In the world of special needs, each individual disorder is quite unique, and in the case of autism the disorder presents in such a unique way from child to child that people who have kids with autism frequently are very far apart in their experience of it. My son is diagnosed with autism and I have been to autism support groups that I felt were talking about a completely different disorder because the kids are so different.

I think that she does have unique insight into the overall experience of having a special needs child and she definitely has a heightened awareness of the issues that go along with that. But, in the world of special needs kids, kids with DS are on the "very easy" end of the spectrum while autism (at least the more severe presentations of it) are on the "very difficult" end.

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Thu, 10-16-2008 - 7:24pm
Yes, I said that too
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Thu, 10-16-2008 - 8:19pm





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Thu, 10-16-2008 - 8:25pm
I don't understand the constant 'why doesn't she hold him at events' comments myself.

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Thu, 10-16-2008 - 8:27pm
I don't think it is an issue.

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Thu, 10-16-2008 - 8:36pm
I know on the occasions my kids came to where I work .... (and that's what she is doing at events -- working) I'd not be the one 'in charge' of my kids ... it would be much like I've seen her do at debates and such ... hold, pass ... WORK.

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Thu, 10-16-2008 - 8:45pm
I wouldn't dare think she's a bad mother for wanting to be the VP, but as I said before there doesn't seem to be a lot of interaction with EITHER parent. Her daughter is always seen with the child in her arms. Mothers and fathers should hold and carry their child, after all they made them, not siblings. Again this is a personal opinion. Yes, these pictures are great, but if you have to go through and cherry pictures of a child being held by it's parents and the perception is they don't hold him that's a problem. I can find so many more of their daughter holding him. And further more I can find more pictures of her holding guns, and I'm not talking about fakes, then of her or her husband holding their child.


Edited 10/16/2008 8:59 pm ET by pgr_923_2006
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Thu, 10-16-2008 - 9:00pm
Parents should carry their own children?

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Thu, 10-16-2008 - 9:10pm
Passing a child to your spouse is his job, it's work when your child does it. What I find funny about the pictures they are mostly from the same event, and their daughter held him all night long until the end when they step up for the pictures. I'd love to see Todd hold him all through an event and then Sara take him after. I hate seeing young girls with children it only perpetuates all the double standards adult women work so hard to overcome. I've personally watched a CFO of multi-million dollar company make a speech then work a room, and give interviews all while holding her baby. That's a working mother I admire.
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Thu, 10-16-2008 - 9:14pm
If your older children were boys do you think their younger siblings would be in their arms for any length of time? And why is it inappropriate for a sleeping child to be in their father's arms? As I said I see it as a larger social issue.