This was going to be yet anotherpost about “Michael Savage’s savagery” with a nice elliptical reference to the Beats and Allen “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked” Ginsburg and the denial of disability with examination of Savage’s reference to a severely disabled sibling who died in a “’snake pit’” of a NYC “‘mental hospital’” and discussion of how Savage suggests that only HE knows disability and can therefore tell us that 99% of our autistic children aren’t autistic, just the products of our bad parenting. I’d been reading post, article, editorial, another post, and more about Savage after (yet another) vigorous YMCA swim with Charlie and a trip for much-needed groceries, and inbetween grading papers (all done) and helping Charlie (when he let me) with his Leapster. Then I...
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