grahamlester

I think the best solution is to think in terms of empowering people. Autistic people with high IQs have a need for understanding and emotional support and might have other needs too. Autistic people with severe intellectual disability, like my son, have a whole, wide range of needs, including rudimentary personal care needs, if they are to be empowered to live the best lives they can. Clever people have opportunity needs, inclusion needs, whereas those with severe intellectual impairment have basic safety needs. My son needs to be protected from commonplace dangers of fire, water, traffic, poison, hygiene, etc. He also needs medication, entertainment, companionship. There is always a danger that the needs of those who cannot speak will go unmet if they are in competition for resources with people who are eloquent and sophisticated and have more political clout. How do we balance the needs of very different groups to whom the same label has been applied? As I say, the need for empowerment seems to me to be the most relevant common factor.

What do you know about state-sponsored troll farms and Covid-19 anti-vaccination propaganda?

We have had tremendous results from Charlotte's Web. Switched to it from Elixinol, which worked well for a while but seemed to lose effect after about a year.

Quasimodo text:

https://www.babelmatrix.org/works/it/Quasimodo%2C\_Salvatore-1901/Lettera\_alla\_madre/es/33192-Carta\_a\_la\_madre

I appreciate your input, portlandobserver. Some of our children need an awful lot of help and the fact is that they suffer, yes really physically suffer, if they do not have proper medical treatment. Best wishes.