XPost: sci.med.diseases.lyme, alt.support.child-protective-services,   
   alt.support.autism   
   From: spyro@f2s.com   
      
   kathleen wrote:   
   > Ian, *what* is your point?   
      
   That you are hurting alt.support.autism.   
      
   You are driving people away who take one look at a group full of   
   anti-establishment lunacy and run screaming.   
      
   You are making it hard for the regular posters to find the threads they   
   want to read.   
      
   Your write-only posting style is BAD for alt.support.autism.   
      
   > Are *you* not wasting everyone's time   
   > telling me I am wasting everyone's time   
   > sharing the science behind these human   
   > conditions?   
      
   No. Im trying to get rid of the drivel thats jamming up this newsgroup.   
   It might be valuble information to you, but here, its worthless.   
      
   > You have nothing valid to say.   
      
   I dont agree. I have plenty to say, but unlike you I do so where   
   appropriate. I dont fill this newsgroup with technical crap relating to   
   my porting-linux-to-PDA work - its the wrong forum, despite the fact   
   that linux on PDAs is a somewhat autistic perseveration of mine.   
      
   > I post the science for the *benefit*   
   > of parents who have autistic kids,   
      
   Cobblers. you post x-files grade pseudoscientific CRAP which drives away   
   parents of autistic kids looking for support.   
      
   > because autism is a place where there   
   > is little professional expertise.   
      
   Posting reams of crap about Lyme to an autism support group wont improve   
   the amount of professional understanding of autism. Try another tactic,   
   *please*   
      
   > Tonight is a show on CNN about it,   
   > I believe.   
      
   Great. Good for you. My estimate is that ~75% of alt.support.autism   
   doesnt live in the USA.   
      
   > At Yale University, there is a 2.5   
   > year waiting list to have your autistic   
   > kid evaluated.   
      
   Im sure there is. its nice to get big-name accreditation to back your   
   claims when the benefits system ask for evidence...   
      
    > Is that not a problem?   
      
   No. I dont live in the USA.   
      
   > Isn't that why we are all here?   
      
   No. Most of us either have diagnoses already or have come to terms with   
   our AS/autism in other ways.   
      
   > If we had something like diabetes or   
   > heart disease, we all would be in   
   > the best of hands.   
      
   Those are (potentially) life threatening. AS is not.   
      
   > Not so Lyme and Autism.   
      
   My AS has got me a good number of benefits that my non AS friends dont   
   enjoy. Im not complaining.   
      
   > It's SIMPLE.  We have to make our own   
   > way through these disabilities.   
      
   Could you take your advice and leave us alone to find our way please?   
      
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