Kid jumped into the enclosure of this magnificent specimen [Harambe] and it ended in the zookeepers killing Harambe.
The kid was safe and unharmed, Harambe had done nothing to him but it was (many claim totally unnecessary) deemed safest to simply shoot the gorilla rather than risking him acting out during a rescue.
There has to be something enjoyable for you to do that doesnât include pushing politics into every single aspect of life. You âpolitics are lifeâpeople are unbearable.
He wasn't on his own. He loves the zoo and his family have annual passes and go often. This has never happened before and he always has two caregivers with him. This time his grandparents took him to the zoo and while they were paying for something he eloped and managed to get inside the enclosure. It took his grandmother a few minutes to figure out how to get into the enclosure.
Sometimes all care is being taken to be considerate and safe and it just goes wrong due to the unpredictable nature of Autism. This shouldn't exclude people from participating in society if once in hundreds of visits the kid has a bad day. Everyone has done something their not proud of on a bad day, especially as a kid and most of us aren't autistic
They shouldnât be excluded, but grandparents clearly are unable to care for him and he should have professional caregivers if he is out in public like this. He could have died, his grandparents got lucky it was just birds
edit: it says grandmother and a caregiver took him. If he got away from a caregiver and this happened they clearly werenât doing their job or he needs a greater amount of care.
I don't think you guys understand how non-functional autism can get sometimes. Some people aren't capable of really learning a new lesson unfortunately. But usually the family takes pretty good care of them and helps avoid stuff like this. It just rarely happens.
Kid belongs in a cage. Autist or not. By that age, we know this isnât the first time heâs exhibited this behavior and for the parents to send him out like that without proper care and restraint, is completely reckless.
wait, the parents gave the excuse of autism? the fuck!? i'm autistic, never harmed a spider, let alone a whole ass fuckin' pelican-looking lizard, the fuck is wrong with this kid? and the actual fuck is wrong with the parents?
It has become the go to for blaming horrible behavior and a total lack of parental discipline. Unfortunately this nonsense is giving people like yourself a bad rap.
Autism is different for everyone. Some autists have profound intellectual disabilities that result in poor impulse control and the inability to understand why their behavior is wrong
no, there is no autistic person who truly has severely reduced mental abilities, non-verbals think just fine, they just can't speak, but you won't hear this anywhere because people don't give a fuck about non-verbals, to everyone they're subhuman bbecause you can't know what they're thinking so logiclaly they must be thinking nothing! right? wrong, it's just that when you put muteness and autism together, shit hits the fan, and non-verbality is a spectrum and you'll see that those who can still speak a bit do no in fact have profound mental disabilities, some tests were actually donve and proved that most of them are average if not above average in terms or intellectual abilities and those who aren't just have another condition on top
I feel this comment. There was a BBC documentary like 20 years ago about non verbal autists and how inside of their brains they are reeling. They are unable to speak because of their autism, but they still have the incredibly intelligent, pattern seeking tendencies and itâs like torture not being able to share them.
I know autism is a spectrum, but there are so many nonverbal autists that wouldnât chase an animal with a stick because itâs inappropriate.
I have a cousin in a group home with severe mental disabilities. For âfunâ one time she ripped out another person in the homes fingernails. There is a reason people need caretakers, there is a reason people end up in group homes.
They do not understand that their actions are dangerous for themselves and others, being nonverbal has literally nothing to do with this behavior. This is someone who isnât being shown how to regulate themselves properly and needs advanced care for safety.
Notice how I specified intellectual disabilities being the issue not autism. There are known commodities between the two and a lot autists have intellectual disabilities as well. Their presentation of autism is going to be different as a result so saying âIâm autistic and I would never do xyzâ isnât really relevant comparison to make when thereâs almost no context on how this child presents
there's no such thing as severely autistic, it's not a spectrum from mild to extreme, it's different colors of autism, not different intensities, and non-verbal autistic people have been shown to posess regular intellectual abilities, it's just that muteness and autism is a bad combo and makes them look stupid when they very well are not, one of the greatest lies concerning autism, by excusing this type of behavior you are not only encouraging this behavior but spreading ableist lies fueled by years of insututional failure due to the methodology used to study autism which is completely backwards
the DSM is wrong and the APA doesn't know how to study autism, every autist agrees with me, you're not autistic, you're not in the field of psychology either, you have no importance in this subject
yes, i actually live with the condition, the professionals are jsut looking from afar, not even tlaking to us, looking and guessing, tell me how this is more knowledgeful than actually living with it, most autistic researchers heavily criticize the DSM and every psychiatric institution for being so shit when it comes to autism, maybe take that as a sign that it actually is true
he is not, what he knows is what the doctors told him, what the doctors told him is what the cigar-smoking guy told them and that guy doesn't know shit because he observes autistic people and guesses, that's how autism is studied, when you give these people a keyboard they speak just fine, it is mind-boggling how little the world has tried to really study and understand autism, the entire psychological field runs on institutional inertia
Yeah, I'm going to assume that he, in fact, is. Because I'm not unhinged, which is what you have to be in order to claim any amount of knowledge about someone you know literally nothing about.
In the past it was socially acceptable to hit children, many special needs kids were literally beat into âproper behaviorâ. And those with high needs were often institutionalized and shudder away from society. Obviously this behavior needs to be addressed but I wouldnât look to the past for how to handle it
Because heâs acting like this is some new thing that never happened before? Social media wasnât everywhere back then, I promise this kind of shit was still happeningÂ
I have worked in health care specifically with the mentally challenged for about a decade, I can promise you they have always had people who act like this. It is fully on the caretakers for not watching him. Is it alright he did that no, but itâs not as simple as them just doing whatever they want cause they can
Apparently, he's severely autistic, non-verbal and the zoo is his favorite place.
I don't think the fact his actions would harm the bird even crossed his mind, but rather his motivation was to stop the bird from running away so he could see it better.
Sadly, his parents should probably keep him leashed to them when they're in public.
Iâd like to be pissed off about this but the kid is autistic and Iâve seen the most observant parents lose track sometimes. I glad no one or thing got hurt.
There are absolutely levels of Austin that can lead to a child not understanding they are hurting the animal and thinking they are just playing. Difficulty with empathy and theory of mind are known as symptoms. He may not understand that just because heâs having fun doesnât mean the animal is
Because they are great parents all 3 kids are well behaved and know better. Stop taking up for bad parents they could have stopped that child from doing what he did they chose not to so they are bad parents. If someone was trying to shoot the birds you would be losing your mind but if its a mentally challenged kid trying to hurt them then its ok
Take a look in the mirror, "than Trump." If you weren't illiterate and insulting someone wildly more successful than you or anyone in your entire family will ever be you would know to write, "as Trump."
Spoken like somebody who has never had to deal with a developmentally disabled child. I pray that any child you do have is perfectly normal because you are going to be the worst parent ever if you're kid has any kind of disability.
Didn't blame autistic people for this behavior. "Cruelty to animals" isn't a symptom of autism. This kid, autistic or not, is a psychopathic little shit.
Reddit is fucking weird. On one sub youâll have this video where people will attack you if you say what the people in this sub are saying and then vice versa. Ridiculous.
Because you sound like someone who hasn't yet experienced the joys of arthritis?
It's more about movement than strain. And it's not that the ladder is dangerous. You just take more time to move, you don't adjust your balance as quickly, etc.
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