Another debate nicely settled by a right-wing radio host. On his nationally syndicated radio show, the ever-delightful Michael Savage has weighed in on the topic of autism, calling the condition a “fraud, a racket.” He went on, “I’ll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it’s a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out. That’s what autism is. What do you mean they scream and they’re silent? They don’t have a father around to tell them, ‘Don’t act like a moron. You’ll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don’t sit there crying and screaming, idiot.’”
Savage’s opinion garnered this priceless response from a reader called Vysotsky:
We live in a culture that coddles children and offers no support to parents who want to instill good values and discipline in them. Take my daughter for instance. Just because some pointy-headed, smartest-guy-in-the-room-type ‘doctor’ claimed that some ‘bloodwork’ proved that my girl has ‘diabetes’, do you think I took his word for it? Of course not! I told my kid to stop acting like a fool and regulate her blood sugar. After all, if she doesn’t regulate her own blood sugar with her own body, who else is going to do it — the government? I expect more from my own child. I told her to pick up those insulin levels by her own bootstraps. This is America! I’ve never felt more ashamed of her than when I discovered that she was failing miserably at her responsibility to control her own insulin production. But it was a critical moment for me as a parent: if I let her shirk the responsibility to produce hormones and regulate blood sugar for herself now, pretty soon she’ll be blaming the world for her problems, begging for handouts from taxpayers, and then before you know it she’ll be a welfare queen.
Pfff. Doctors.






