How did McCain keep getting this wrong!
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How did McCain keep getting this wrong!
| 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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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.
Edited 10/16/2008 8:59 pm ET by pgr_923_2006
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