Why is Hollywood /Scientology Always Depicting the Disabled Negatively and Don’t They Realize It Hurts My Child?

I wouldn’t mind Hollywood so much if they hadn’t insulted everything I have stood for in my life. To begin with I believe in equal rights and not a caste system in which the disabled of this country are trampled upon. Hollywood depicts the disabled worse then they depicted black people in the 1970(s). At least Hollywood just called all Black people criminals in the 1970(s) instead of just depicting all disabled people as morons.

Actually disabled people have an excuse for their low IQ(s) but heartless Hollywood who has been so politically incorrect really doesn’t have an excuse. There is no political justification for how they portrayed black people in the 1970(s) on television and how they have depicted the disabled in 2012. I know many of you will write to me about the show Touched. It is still politically incorrect as well. Once they dragged 9/11 into the show story line, it tainted everything. And they haven’t actually acknowledged the child is autistic and do not portray Autism accurately.

The problem with Hollywood is the same problem Washington DC is suffering from right now. They are too wealthy and too far removed from real life to portray what is going on in this country. I doubt they would be in Hollywood if they could handle real life or government for that matter. The fattest, laziest and greediest people are in DC and Hollywood.

And in particular it would seem the Scientologists are the worst offenders about the disabled.

But I am going to give you several examples so you understand the ignorance I have to endure daily and then I will tell you yet another chapter in my life in which my son and I had to endure.

The Intellectually Challenged are people who have low IQ(s). They are kind sweet people who are not demanding at all and they have a very unique innocence about them. Most of them are higher functioning then they are ever given credit for because the educational system just gives up on teaching them when they are young and they are warehoused in schools and shown movies all day. I have worked extensively with this population and had a classroom of 24 children diagnosed with either mild intellectual handicap or severe intellectual handicapped and within one year of working with them, ½ of they were no longer intellectually handicapped. It was considered quite controversial but I would not give up on any of students as it was my responsibility as their teacher even when others didn’t believe in them. Unlike Forrest Gump they all do not run the wrong way with the football or their Mama’s aren’t giving sexual favors to get them in general education classes. They don’t moon the president or run across the nation. And they definitely don’t believe life is a box of chocolates. Some of them are exceptional athletes who serve in churches and are brilliant artists.

More over Forrest Gump portrays intellectually challenged Americans as capable soldiers. This is very dangerous.

Has anyone heard of Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson providing charity to the intellectually disabled?

The most offensive film is Stuck on You in my opinion. It is offensive for so many reasons that I will not even prattle on but I will say this film is one of the most politically incorrect films I have ever seen. What do Scientologists have against disabled people?

I am not even certain where to begin about what is offensive about What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. Is it making fun of the super obese Mother? Or was Arnie Intellectually challenged or autistic? I am surprised Leonardo Dicaprio received an Oscar for this role since he obviously was insulting the disabled and he was so non-specific about his character. I noticed Johnny Depp soon departed the country after making this film which was wise on his behalf.

The entire theme of this movie was America is a Fatherless country of disabled people that was a rotting shell with a subtext of sexual abuse underneath. If only Hollywood understood we like them as much as they like us. And Hollywood awards the film with Oscars. The question isn’t What is Eating Gilbert Grape but how does Hollywood ever imagine itself politically surviving providing negative stereo types of disabled people in America? Cripple jokes maybe funny inside Hollywood but that is a very small place and those same jokes are obnoxious throughout the world.

Leonardo DiCaprio should put the profits from one of his 90 million dollar paychecks from one of his movies into Autism. And I would think he and Johnny Depp need to do a little community service with this population so they realize what a disservice they have provided to children with Autism throughout the world.

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape is my #2 film of the worst offenders to disabled people.

Medically complex children are often children who suffer from such rare disorders that their parents can’t find medical help in their communities. On average it takes six years for doctors and specialists to diagnose a rare disorders and the survival rate is so astronomically low in these children it is a very sad state of affairs. And the funding isn’t there. Hollywood always forgets to mention that the funding is never there for these children. The parents not only have to struggle to understand their children’s rare disorders and many of them take up biochemistry but they also are under considerable duress without any medical assistance just trying to keep their children alive. And then the financial straights these families are left in is just horrendous which is another omission by Hollywood as well.

JohnTravolta starred in a film entitled the Boy in the Plastic Bubble but it was nearly as offensive as the movie Bubble Boy. Jake Gyllenhaal lost my respect the day he took that role. I don’t watch films by Maggie Gyllenhall either. The Gyllenhaal’s are off the list of actors I would consider ever watching again.

But I am not big movie fan. I prefer books and fine conversation at Dinner Parties. But the aforementioned actors are all Scientologists and you have to ask yourself why the Scientologists have to degrade the disabled who clearly can’t even stand up for themselves? And why would they put out so much false information about the disabled? Because they must know the bill is going to come due on all of their negative karma against the disabled. Helping one Sarah Pain isn’t going to square them after what 20+ years of making fun of disabled American children.

JohnTravolta starred in a film entitled the Boy in the Plastic Bubble but it was nearly as offensive as the movie Bubble Boy. Jake Gyllenhaal lost my respect the day he took that role. I don’t watch films by Maggie Gyllenhall either. The Gyllenhaal’s are off the list of actors I would consider ever watching again.

When I watched the clips of The Boy in the Plastic Bubble it was just as offensive. Can’t Hollywood be sensitive?

My son and I use to watch Glee together as he liked the music until they made fun of someone with Autism. And the aforementioned films my son will never see. My son has both a rare disorder and Autism as a matter of fact he was sick last week and we spent a couple of days in the hospital with my son on an IV. He is feeling much better and went to the grocery store. He was not keen about hospital food and he is 5’3” and is always hungry. I have spoken to his doctor about this and they tell me his weight and height are in perfect, he will be very tall and it is not abnormal for male children to eat so much. So my son was into everything in the store. I have a one item rule which I let him buy one item but if he eats the fruit in the produce department that his one item. Despite eating 3lbs of strawberries before we went to the store my son was still starving.

So he was into everything. I readily admit this was the worst day we have had in the grocery store for several months. I ran into an mature family friend that I had known since I was 4 and she asked about my Mother’s death. I tried to explain and she just told me it was late in Friday and all kids act up in the grocery store. She was quite kind. As we parted I hugged her and said my goodbye’s.

A women came up to me and yelled at me my son strayed something. I asked what. She could not tell me. She was elderly. Then she told me that I was a bad parent and my son should be locked in an institution. I asked her what her qualifications were to judge me? I mean after all she couldn’t even tell me what my son had supposedly sprayed. Now I have endured my son being asked what is wrong with him. I have endured older people calling him retarded which my son understands everything that is said and just can’t answer. And now I was being told I was a bad parent for hugging a family friend because this woman believed my so belonged in an institution. Then she proceeded to chase us through the grocery store like a rabid dog. I can assure you that no one would last the day with my son. They couldn’t do the tour. It is hard, grueling and I have absolutely no funding, no child support and no help. I do it all by myself and I have been for the past 12 years. Besides even if my son did spray air freshener in his mouth I doubt he was the first child to do so in the grocery store. As a matter of fact, I know he isn’t. I have personally watched children spray air freshener into their mouths and I didn’t feel compelled to tell the parent how to care for their child. In instances like that I believe it is my duty to mind my own business as parents have sovereignty to raise their own children. Needless to say my son didn’t spray anything as I had the manager pull the tapes. It was just an old angry bitter person who thought my son belonged in an institution. She didn’t want a disable person to have access to the world but to be locked up like a common criminal without the benefit of parole.

Now the woman was old and clearly needed to be in a nursing home. And sadly, the elderly seem to think the cripples and the gays need to go back into the closet. Now this is not true of all senior citizens. I have many friends who are senior citizens but even they tell me that old people don’t understand because they only believe what they see in the movies. Quite simply, they lack the ability to adapt to change. And that is half the country which is suffering from inflexible minds, inability to adapt and who are programmed to believe every Autistic child is that of Leonardo DiCaprio in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape or Jake Gyllenhaal from Bubble Boy. Sadly, my family calls my son “bubble boy” to my face and I don’t think I can ever forgive them for it. Nor can I ever forgive Hollywood or DC.

I have spoken extensively about this to my priest and he is a Korean fellow. And he told me in the end it will be everyone will have to ask for my forgiveness. I just hope I have it in me to give because I can no longer take the daily assaults on my son. I didn’t really care if I am picked on as a parent but no one has the right to say anything infront of my son when he understands 100%. He has been tested for reading comprehension and he scores in the high 80(s). So he understands everything that is said.

Please don’t write to me about Touched. Cute show but not very realistic and again undermines the plight of children and families with Autism.

I believe we need women politicians desperately especially those of special needs children and into Sarah Palin who saw the Tea Party as a get rich quick scheme. This country is so divided and continues to be. As a matter of fact I think Hollywood plays a huge role in dividing America. God knows they can’t break the 20% rule. And they never higher disabled actors.

The best they can do is higher “little people” and god knows they never make fun of them for fear of one producer/actors’ wrath.

And I think everyone in Congress over the age of 55 needs to go out on mandatory retirement. If I and my medically fragile autistic son can endure being verbal assaulted everyday of the week and twice on Sunday then Congress needs to own it and retire out.

And Hollywood needs to own that they have been bigoted towards the Black population and the disabled. I guess everything is a joke when you are so wealthy your feet never touch the ground.

But it hurts me and it hurts my son every single day and that needs to stop.