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(1,014 posts) Mon Aug 19, 2013, 02:17 PM Aug 2013

Family In Shock After Hate Letter Targets Teen With Autism [View all]

Source: City News Toronto

A family is in shock and a community has united after an anonymous hate letter was written about a young boy living with severe autism.

Karla Begley told CityNews her son Max, 13, stays with his grandmother in the morning during the summer time. It was at that home in Newcastle where letter was delivered on Friday.

“I was shaking when I was reading it,” Brenda Millson, Max’s grandmother, told CityNews. “It’s awful words. You don’t know why somebody would ever do such a thing.”

The typed, one-page letter refers to the young boy as a “nuisance” and a “wild animal” before suggesting the family move or “euthanize” the child.

Read more: http://www.citynews.ca/2013/08/18/family-in-shock-after-hate-letter-targets-teen-with-autism/

I hope it's a hoax. I just can't even go there with this. If it's real, people this mean don't deserve to exist.

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I'm not sure what you mean by a hoax BainsBane Aug 2013 #1

That was my first thought quakerboy Aug 2013 #33

That a mother could fabricate such a letter is difficult for me to imagine BainsBane Aug 2013 #36

Hate crimes against people with disabilities are real KamaAina Aug 2013 #2

I know. This kind of thing is just so........graphic. Butterbean Aug 2013 #5

Some of my neighbors Demeter Aug 2013 #27

Here's an example from Portland KamaAina Aug 2013 #7

Saw that one too. Okay, you're right, I shouldn't be surprised, should I? SMDH. Butterbean Aug 2013 #10

What the hell? Stargazer09 Aug 2013 #15

The letter expresses such ignorance it has to be from a Republican Bandit Aug 2013 #16

CORRECT Skittles Aug 2013 #22

No. I'm suggesting that it could have been written by a bored teenager or something. Butterbean Aug 2013 #3

Well, something very similar happened near Colorado Springs recently alp227 Aug 2013 #4

Yeah, I saw that, that was pretty awful. n/t Butterbean Aug 2013 #6

I'm thinking the autistic kid knows more about human decency... Deep13 Aug 2013 #8

Exactly! RavensChick Aug 2013 #24

Any similarities (modus operandi, paper, printer) to the hate letters sent to Kingston lesbians? nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2013 #9

No, about the only thing they have in common is they're both typed and Butterbean Aug 2013 #12

Probably not. "Asshole" isn't a rare affliction. (nt) Posteritatis Aug 2013 #21

Probably sent by some bratty 14-year-old who thinks he's a comedian... Blue_Tires Aug 2013 #11

I really really hope so, at least there's hope for teaching a 14 year old (maybe). Butterbean Aug 2013 #13

It happened to a person with whom I work. lumberjack_jeff Aug 2013 #14

No surprise to me. And I don't think a kid wrote it, either. I've met people like this IRL. freshwest Aug 2013 #17

I shudder at the thought of anyone with that much venom and hatred actually Butterbean Aug 2013 #19

Try a school meeting or in a legislature. Or where I first found the euthanize them meme, a freshwest Aug 2013 #20

I saw the letter posted on another OP. sheshe2 Aug 2013 #35

wingnuts trashing the disabled otohara Aug 2013 #18

I don't believe it's a hoax. RavensChick Aug 2013 #23

I don't care if it's a "hoax" or not. Demoiselle Aug 2013 #25

As the mother of a severely autistic child missingthebigdog Aug 2013 #26

Let he who is most perfect cast the 1st stone. washnwmn Aug 2013 #28

I expect this kind of stuff from people here in Texas, but Canada? Shocking and shocked. marble falls Aug 2013 #29

The police are taking it seriously davidpdx Aug 2013 #30

My autistic kid can get loud in the back yard, too. Thankfully, we have great neighbors. Butterbean Aug 2013 #31

You are also lucky to have a backyard where he can run around davidpdx Aug 2013 #32

It does, and it's one of the reasons when my husband got house envy Butterbean Aug 2013 #34