"I know that many women have disabled children as pets"

[saintlydamemrsturnip]

On the MN Facebook page and written by some vile piece of work mumsnetter I suppose called Claire Khaw

I have started a thread in chat asking who she is but no reply yet.

Surely comments such as the one above and "As for the mother in the link who fears for her disabled son, perhaps this is an object lesson for all of us who are thinking of inflicting our disabled children on the taxpayer. Don't have disabled children and add to the increasing pool of the unproductive and feckless of this benighted country." actually come under hate speech rather than 'free speech'.

What on EARTH is MN doing allowing it on their FB page. I think they've lost the plot.

devientenigma, mine didn't get most forms of humour or jokes until he was around 12. Slapstick, however, was a favourite for years.
He'd get up early to watch Laurel and Hardy.
He also found the concept of other people's physical pain incomprehensible, and as for emotional traumas, forget it.
Three years ago, I cut my finger badly whilst gardening and he went to get the First Aid. But he also said 'Are you all right? That must really hurt' I was very pleased, I'd waited over a decade for something like that response.

Thanks Goblin, my son although asd is also down syndrome. He doesn't have the comprehension either but just seems to enjoy people getting hurt and seeing them cry. Stims for ages and holds his breath at the same time. Just don't know why he seems to be so hurtful.

ah what a twat

can you imagine how this 'choice' pans out - DEVESTATED as yr nuchal reveals a scant fold.. having to go through cvs /amnio just in case you are carrying some norm, not the disabled pet you so crave. The agony of termination, or making the BRAVE decision to continue with the normal pregnancy, maybe drinking yrself to oblivion in the hope that you can still grasp that golden ticket..

thems the choices we make eh

Yes, and when does this VIP treatment and sympathy come?

I didn't get that choice...I had the blood testwhich was low risk!! nothing showed on a scan down syndrome on family history. Nothing!! Then to be told after birth your son has a heart condition, all structural!! then to query downs....positive then the many other problems encountered along the years so no CHOICE for me!!

lol pipin, yeh my son also echos words hes not supposed to use!! though when he says something it's always those same words. What about deliberatly hurting people?? My son has an obsession for feet and will sit and watch peoples feet as they walk by for hours. Though this year he has started to stick his foot out to trip them up. He doesn't laugh if this happens but sits stimming and holding his breath??

devientenigma, that is rough, I feel your pain, DD seemed actually gifted until 2.5 and now sounds/acts as if she has LDs, it's hard to come to terms with.

I x-posted, that was re your earlier comment, of course!

Pipin and fanjo, we don't need SYMPATHY lol in this thread. I was just clearly discussing choice. I just take what life throws at me and try to get on with it.......badly lol. I prefer to laugh and I don't think my sense of humour comes through very well while I am posting.

oh sorry, maybe i am just after sympathy then, maybe claire was right!

No fanjo, it's not sympathy.......it's the VIP treatment we are all after. Come on Claire where do we get this??

I got it yesterday, a woman held the door open for me with DD in her buggy, made it all worthwhile

I get VIP treatment.

Often times when I go into a cafe with DS2 lots of people very kindly move to seats further away to give me extra room. They are very sweet.

Actually I am kind of with BoF on this.

so glad I was out yesterday and missed this thread, what a horrid thread title,

Apparently we are supposed to kill our children. Shame on us for not smothering them as soon as their disabilities became apparent. How selfish we are to inflict our monstrosities on the poor world.

I know it's a troll, I know we are supposed to ignore but by god I would love to get hold of that sack of shit.

It's not a troll though just - it's someone using their real name on fb and very easy to track down. She's a stand up comic (probably an excuse for some bigoted ranting) so she advertises her appearances. Very noisy on the web.

I don't agree that it should be ignored. I think we need to start using the laws that exist (and push for more if needed) to say this is not acceptable and we won't sit silently and just accept it. I've linked to a couple of fb groups dealing with disability hate speech on the other thread.

Fair enough to ignore an anonymous troll but I don't want to ignore someone who says this in public. I actually want to throw the book at them.

so is she on mn? sorry I have read the thread, but am a bit confused

She's on the mn facebook page 2shoes - under a question about a Tory government. It was the first thing I saw when I looked at the FB page (for the first time ever) yesterday.
Hq did say they thought they had blocked her but obviously hadn't managed it.
She twitters about MN a lot as well.

Agree riven.

can you do A link, I did have alook but couldn't find it

What is the legal standpoint on this sort of stuff? I mean, obviously if she were publishing this sort of viewpoint about ethnic minorities via facebook/twitter/blog, it would be incitement to racial hatred, or whatever it is called now - wouldn't it? Is there an equivalent protection here? Has this actually broken any laws?

There's a discussion about that in the other thread - the one I linked to in the op. I'm not sure - I have emailed an organisation to ask though. I think it would be hard to prosecute this (there is sine protection unfer the criminal justice act) but maybe if everyone decent in society starts speaking out it will become unacceptable.

2shoes I can't link as I'm on the iPod.