CTV W5

Carly Fleischmann as featured on CTV W5 with Lisa LaFlamme.

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• autism
• Carly Fleischmann
• Carly's Voice
• autistic

[superstar27kh]

Aaaaw Carly I love you your sooo pretty and you're truly amazing :) no matter how different to others you may be, you are still absolutely beautiful :) xxx

[AlexRaveloTV]

wow so she should be 14 just about now thats how old i am :D i couldn imagine living with autism i feel for her so much she broke boundaries with her spelling can anyone else tell me if other autistic can do this?

[joadhenry]

@littlelily613 actually the scientist that "proved" that claim to be false, Poul Thorsen, was indicted for defrauding research institutions of grant money and money laundering....the paper connecting vaccines and mercury to autism has been vindicated since...Wakefield was right all along.....vaccines are the biggest scam ever put over on the public if you research in depth and with a critical mind towards facts....and not big pharma pay offs and government cover ups...

[littlelily613]

@culotta0048 You info is based on "facts" that are not scientifically based but only opinions. It was proven to be a false claim. Also, there was autism before, there just wasn't enough information known about it; therefore, there were less diagnoses made. It might be increasing anyway, but that is not the result of vaccines (not an opinion, also based on scientific findings).

[Spydyee2]

@TravisMorien What would you do to avoid recreating the kind of horrors of Romanian orphanages under Ceauşescu?

As you can see from my other posts I am not against abortion as long as all the other options out there are explored equally and that is not what is being done. We are not talking about limiting a woman's right to choose. we are talking a bout actually allowing her to take time to make her choice after getting complete information. That is not currently happening.

[Spydyee2]

@TravisMorien Medicaid made me wait because often women are pressured by family and their sexual partners to be sterilized when they really do not want to be. The cooling down time gives the woman time to think about her decision, while at the same time appearing to everyone to be planning on having the sterilization done. Why not do the same thing for a woman wanting to abort a DS child? Sterilization is life altering which is why the waiting period exists. So is having an abortion.

[Spydyee2]

@TravisMorien After she had been told all 3 of her options, if she wanted an abortion then she would fill out a form, wait 30 days, just in case she changed her mind, and then she could have the procedure. This would give her time to do research, think, if she is religious talk with her religious leaders, talk with her family who might have a member willing to adopt the child, or whatever. I had to wait 30 days from signing a form requesting to have my tubes tied before the procedure was done.

[Spydyee2]

@TravisMorien no I am clearly opposed to an emotional hormonal woman making a snap judgment that she will regret the rest of her life based on only half of the picture. My "perfect world" would screen any mother that requested it but only if she requested the screening. Then if the child was diagnosed, she would be required to visit a parent support group and meet their kids. Then she would be instructed about the adoption process and the abortion process.

[Spydyee2]

@TravisMorien My personal guess is that if they actually talked to parents of DS kids and actually interacted with them before making the decision you would see the rate drop to about 60-65%. I do not have unreasonable expectations. I don't even think all the doctors are eugenics happy monsters they are just contributing to a problem by only giving the mom one side of the story. Also, I think a "cooling down" period before the procedure is done is critical for all cases.

[Spydyee2]

@TravisMorien If the abortion rate remained the same and every person had to go through the process of interacting with parents of DS kids as well as the DS kids and there was a 30 day "cooling off" time before the abortions, I would have a different attitude. I know how the doctors are handling things and that is what I want to see changed. Emotional, Hormonal women do not need to make rapid decisions. I know I am the mom of 9 kids and I didn't trust my own snap decisions when I was pregnant.