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" &amp;quot;A fraud, a racket. I&amp;#x27;ll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it&amp;#x27;s a brat who hasn&amp;#x27;t been told to cut the act out. That&amp;#x27;s what autism is. What do you mean they scream and they&amp;#x27;re silent? They don&amp;#x27;t have a father around to tell them, &amp;#x27;Don&amp;#x27;t act like a moron. You&amp;#x27;ll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don&amp;#x27;t sit there crying and screaming, idiot.&amp;#x27; &amp;quot; --Michael Savage on Autism. Wow. Of course, after the jump, Savage claims his comments were taken completely out of context. Right. He even goes as far as to talk about his disabled brother who died at 20 in a &amp;quot;snake pit&amp;quot; hospital. Interesting defense, considering last month on air he claimed that Autism is so prevalent so poor families can get a bigger bang for their welfare buck. As a mother of an almost one-year-old I spent countless hours researching vaccines and their link to Autism I was completely insulted by Savage&amp;#x27;s ignorant remarks. Now, my opinion is that no, vaccines do not cause Autism. How could my opinion be anything less when I knowingly take JD to the Ped for routine vaccines? I&amp;#x27;m interested in your opinion, so share. Now, what really got me fired up, all alone in my apartment with no one to vent to was Savage&amp;#x27;s claim that absent father&amp;#x27;s are the reason that children uh, pretend to have Autism. In America freedom of speech obviously reigns but I really feel people who have the luxury of a public forum (he has over 8 million listeners every week) should be more responsible. Me included. I second guess a lot of things I write here, on Storked! and I always wonder if you all think I&amp;#x27;m &amp;quot;judging,&amp;quot; when in actuality I&amp;#x27;m simply rehashing experiences and asking for your opinions. I feel the same about a lot of other blogs that promote one side of every story they tell--like that decision is the only one. Something I&amp;#x27;ve tried to do on Storked! is remind everyone reading that I am Pro-Choice and that my experience is just one version of one outcome. I&amp;#x27;ve been working on a project that helps illustrate other outcomes of being Storked! It&amp;#x27;s been an eye-opener and I can&amp;#x27;t wait to share my findings with all of you. My lifestyle doesn&amp;#x27;t suit everyone. What I&amp;#x27;m getting at is that Glamour.com is my very public, very viewed platform. I would never stand on a soapbox and tsk the woman who had an abortion or put her kid up for adoption, so it bothers me that Savage used his radio show as a place to mock a brain disorder that affects about half-a-million Americans. Discuss To learn more about Autism or to make a donation click here. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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