Katie McCarron May We Never Forget
Original Post: June 13, 2006
You remember that little girl I mentioned in my last entry whose mother killed her? This is her just 12 days before the horrible incident. This is Katie. Now by just looking at the picture, do you think she's in pain? Is she living an existence worse than death? Clearly no. Yet she had to die because she was born different from those who make up the neurologically typical majority; she was autistic. This should not have happened. I should have wrote this entry a long time ago.
The last entry I wrote I did so in the context of telling people to stop spreading lies about the autistic existence and how such sensationalism lead to people thinking it is ok to mistreat or even kill autistic persons. While this played a factor in Katie's death, what her mother did to her is unforgivable. Even under such bombardment of negativity, there were other ways the mother could have resolved her issues. Many exemplary parents, like Susan Senator or Kevin Leitch, with children all across the autistic spectrum have had difficulties raising their children and have felt hopeless many times, but have loved their children unconditionally anyway. No difficulty in raising a child makes it ok to kill him/her. Usually in a case like this, the death penalty would be sought for the mother, no questions asked. However, that shady lawyer working for the mother, Karen Maccarron, is seeking to twist the facts in some way that will allow her to get away with it more lightly, if not completely off the hook. Like taking advantage of the fact that people resent autism and blame IT for the mother's "stress" that drove her to "mercy-kill" her daughter. Normally, I'd be opposed to the death penalty. But in some select cases like this, I couldn't care less if Karen McCarron does get the death penalty. It serves her right.
The most ironic thing was that Karen Mccarron was a doctor, a role most people would think is completely incompatible with such an act. I am saddened because there may be people like this in the profession I aspire to join, a couple of rotten apples in the barrel. A doctor is suppose to preserve and improve the quality of life in those under his/her care, and shouldn't give up on his/her patient for better or worse. A doctor should be an active thinker and challenge the wrong assumptions other people make about those in need of medical or other forms of help. These things are not what Karen Mccarron did. Instead, she let her own anger blind her reason and took it out on her own flesh and blood.
Katie will never know the world beyond her first three years of life. Her grandfather, Mike Mccarron, told us of the many fun times she has had and how she loved him and her grandmother, singing and playing. She attended a school and knew an octagon before any of her non-autistic peers. Now in what way is this consistent with the melodramatic tragedy line the autism establishment tries to sell? And how come most of the articles I read never mentioned what Katie was like as a person?
I've never known Katie, but when it comes time for me to practice as a physician, I may get to know many who are like her. It is my job to make sure in all my power that this kind of thing doesn't happen again and to give parents the right idea to love their children unconditionally. Her grandfather is a good man by showing her as a person rather than a "problem" to be fixed. I hope I will be able to develop more of being a good man myself. And I must always remind all readers why these things happen and why we should always remember events like this as a call to action:
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men do nothing"
You remember that little girl I mentioned in my last entry whose mother killed her? This is her just 12 days before the horrible incident. This is Katie. Now by just looking at the picture, do you think she's in pain? Is she living an existence worse than death? Clearly no. Yet she had to die because she was born different from those who make up the neurologically typical majority; she was autistic. This should not have happened. I should have wrote this entry a long time ago.
The last entry I wrote I did so in the context of telling people to stop spreading lies about the autistic existence and how such sensationalism lead to people thinking it is ok to mistreat or even kill autistic persons. While this played a factor in Katie's death, what her mother did to her is unforgivable. Even under such bombardment of negativity, there were other ways the mother could have resolved her issues. Many exemplary parents, like Susan Senator or Kevin Leitch, with children all across the autistic spectrum have had difficulties raising their children and have felt hopeless many times, but have loved their children unconditionally anyway. No difficulty in raising a child makes it ok to kill him/her. Usually in a case like this, the death penalty would be sought for the mother, no questions asked. However, that shady lawyer working for the mother, Karen Maccarron, is seeking to twist the facts in some way that will allow her to get away with it more lightly, if not completely off the hook. Like taking advantage of the fact that people resent autism and blame IT for the mother's "stress" that drove her to "mercy-kill" her daughter. Normally, I'd be opposed to the death penalty. But in some select cases like this, I couldn't care less if Karen McCarron does get the death penalty. It serves her right.
The most ironic thing was that Karen Mccarron was a doctor, a role most people would think is completely incompatible with such an act. I am saddened because there may be people like this in the profession I aspire to join, a couple of rotten apples in the barrel. A doctor is suppose to preserve and improve the quality of life in those under his/her care, and shouldn't give up on his/her patient for better or worse. A doctor should be an active thinker and challenge the wrong assumptions other people make about those in need of medical or other forms of help. These things are not what Karen Mccarron did. Instead, she let her own anger blind her reason and took it out on her own flesh and blood.
Katie will never know the world beyond her first three years of life. Her grandfather, Mike Mccarron, told us of the many fun times she has had and how she loved him and her grandmother, singing and playing. She attended a school and knew an octagon before any of her non-autistic peers. Now in what way is this consistent with the melodramatic tragedy line the autism establishment tries to sell? And how come most of the articles I read never mentioned what Katie was like as a person?
I've never known Katie, but when it comes time for me to practice as a physician, I may get to know many who are like her. It is my job to make sure in all my power that this kind of thing doesn't happen again and to give parents the right idea to love their children unconditionally. Her grandfather is a good man by showing her as a person rather than a "problem" to be fixed. I hope I will be able to develop more of being a good man myself. And I must always remind all readers why these things happen and why we should always remember events like this as a call to action:
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men do nothing"
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