Not that anyone's asked what I think of Jenny McCarthy "curing" her son of autism. I hope it's because I've trained you well about what autistic children are like, what I think of the accomplishments of celebrity parents, and what autism is not.
I do not think autsim can be cured.
I do not believe it is caused by mercury, candida, diet or quack diagnosis. (In fact, I think many mercury poisoning believers are paranoid kooks. The rest have been snake oiled by doctors who push chelation cures.)
You know from reading about my son that he is not a soulless automaton and that we were not destroyed (challenged as fuck though) by his presence in our lives.
Jenny McC*rthy is full of shit. Now you know I think Jenny McC*rthy is full of shit. Her son is not cured, assuming he was ever autistic. Jenny McC*rthy believed in "
Indigos and Crystals." (After a strange woman told her on the street that her son was an Indigo and she a Crystal.) McC started a website for Mommies who needed to believe they and their children were superextraspecial and needed hook-ups.
She's since abandoned it. I guess she figured out having a son with autism was more special, and that Indigo shit sort of undermined her previous brain trust cred as a Playboy Playmate and vomit-eater.
Like Madonna, McC has been reinventing. Madonna's full of shit, too. McC's latest reinvention and publicity blitz, though, is harmful. It promotes a "cure" for autism. There is no cure for autism, any more than there's a cure for having one leg (and don't be smartasses about that, I won't tolerate it). It is the addled marcissism of yet another mom who keeps seeking a diagnosis for her child until she gets the one that makes her feel most special. We can call it "McC*rthy by proxy."
It also pushes a personal button, touting the "accomplishments" of celebrities as if no one else has ever had them. As if only the people with makeup artists, assistants, publicists, and an eager cadre of sensationalist couchwhores from Oprah on down, are worth listening to.
More reading on Jenny McC*rthy and her "cured" son from Autism Diva, who is the mother of a 27-year-old autistic son, and whose research is impeccable and well-cited:
http://autismdiva.blogspot.com/2007/09/jenny-mccarthy-and-problem-of-illusions.htmlI always check Autism Diva first for autism news analysis first, and so should you.
Go forth and call bullshit, my friends. For every person who asks what you think of McC, send them here. They need a double scoop of truth.
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