FL - Woman Stabs Autistic Nephew's Eyes, Then Herself

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The Aunt stabbed herself in the eye as well, right? Very Equus like, I have to say...in any case it is clear she slipped a gear. I have nieces and nephews that have a range of ASD from Asberger's on. Aint nothin' but a thang in my family, if you forgive the slang-we are used to unusual personalities so we embrace it all.
 
Apparently, the aunt had only recently moved into the home. She stabbed him around 1:00 a.m. and the family called for help around 11:00 am. Could he have been in his room and unable to call out for help, and the family didn't realize anything was wrong until late morning - thinking he was sleeping in? There is a video associated with this link, and he looks to be heavily bandaged, so I would imagine the wounds would have been very obvious if anyone had seen him before calling. That is the only explanation I can think of for the delay in dialing 911.

http://www.local10.com/news/14740373/detail.html
 
It will be interesting to find out more information about the aunt. Could she have stabbed his eyes because he witnessed something she didn't want him to ever see again???
 
Here is a bit more information:

"Neighbors in the 8500 block of Northwest 53rd Street said they had not noticed any problems at the home, where the boy lived with his grandmother. County property records show the house is owned by Stella Babington, 72."

"Police escorted from the home Friday morning the unidentified aunt accused in the attack.

"They were pulling the woman away, and she was ranting and raving about suppressed people," neighbor Joanne Kull said. "She looked very angry."

http://tinyurl.com/2zfend
 
misterallgood said:
I just had to add -- one of my sons is autistic. My youngest daughter has just been diagnosed with Asperger's. My sister is autistic. Stories like this bring me as close as I'll ever come to wanting to go vigilante on an accused criminal.

Steve/Mr. A
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This story has shaken me to the core. There really ARE no words. My anger is only matched by my sadness for what this child is going through and will continue to go through. My grandson is autistic and to imagine for one second what I would do to the person who ever caused him this much pain...is too much anger for me to handle.

I know the frustrations, the joys, the sadness, and the hope which goes along with having a special needs child in our family, but we have unconditional love and understanding. We work hard to do whatever needs to be done and more to give him every advantage for leading a near to normal life. My grandson realizes he is different, even at four years old, but he just thinks it is because he is more intelligent than everyone else (probably because he is.).

I don't know how they will go about communicating with him now, but someone will find a way. They have to.

Sign language was a huge breakthrough for us with my grandson to unlock speech. They can still use sign on the palms of his hands.

I will keep this child in my thoughts and prayers.

As for his aunt, I will pray she doesn't turn out to be some crackhead because then Steve and I WILL have to hunt her *advertiser censored* down.
 
Mr. A
My oldest son with infantile autism was hyperlexic too...and had 5 words maybe by age 4. They said he would never be able to communicate with words. I figured that if he was smart enough to read, then the problem was that he needed a reason to speak or understand why speech was needed. I made a reward system to help him speak. He was rewarded for saying any sound at first for things he wanted...and then I gradually made it words. It took many months, but this was really helpful. I don't want to get your hopes up for a speaking child, but if I listened to the "professionals" my son would not be speaking incessantly now. I basically modified and shaped a "PECS" like system with positive behavioral interventions...but used words instead of pictures. If you want details or any samples I'd be willing to send them to you. Don't lose hope, keep looking for strategies to help your son!
PS My 15 yo daughter is Asperger's too, so I can relate to your situation. Bless you for being a loving caring dad!
misterallgood said:
There was a bit in the article about the boy running around in his underwear outside. I could so see my son doing that if we dropped our guard for a minute (we don't; we have a doorguard on the front door so it can't be opened by kids).

There is a lot of stress in having autism in your family, but there are moments of great joy, and a lot of remarkable things can be learned about human nature. My son has taught me just how strong the human need for reaching out to others truly is. He is almost mute, at 4, but it turns out he has an unusual type of autism sometimes referred to as hyperlexia. Hyperlexic children literally learn to read and write before they can speak, and they teach themselves. My son was putting words together and learning to neatly write the names of things he liked when he was barely 4 -- and in part, it was also his way of getting around his inability to speak the words and still communicate with his mother and me.

It makes me incredibly sad when I think about the people afflicted with autism spectrum disorders who are not born into loving homes, who don't have caregivers open-minded and intelligent enough to learn what they are dealing with. I'm overly-protective of my kids and to some degree my sister (who is 47) already; stories like this just make that worse, somehow.

Thanks for your kind words, filly.

Steve/Mr. A
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It sure would have been nice if this child had already learned to type. Are any of you familiar with Amanda Baggs? She is an autistic lady who posts videos of her life and experiences on Youtube. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the MD for ABC News discovered one of her video's and did a piece on it. Here is a link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnylM1hI2jc

She explained by her electronic keyboard which has a speech element, that it was a video which represents how she interacts with her world. She is humming, what I find to be a very beautiful and haunting melody that is overlayed with her standing in front of her window "interacting" with what she "sees" outside and with her making noises with objects that she finds interesting both by the "sounds" they make, and by the "shape" that they are. She also frequently blogs about many different issues in life, and that can be found here:
http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/

My heart just breaks for the boy in this story. With limited means to communite and experience the world, he has now been denied one of them. What was the aunt thinking? Why did it take so long for help to be summoned?
 
Reannan said:
It sure would have been nice if this child had already learned to type. Are any of you familiar with Amanda Baggs? She is an autistic lady who posts videos of her life and experiences on Youtube. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the MD for ABC News discovered one of her video's and did a piece on it. Here is a link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnylM1hI2jc

She explained by her electronic keyboard which has a speech element, that it was a video which represents how she interacts with her world. She is humming, what I find to be a very beautiful and haunting melody that is overlayed with her standing in front of her window "interacting" with what she "sees" outside and with her making noises with objects that she finds interesting both by the "sounds" they make, and by the "shape" that they are. She also frequently blogs about many different issues in life, and that can be found here:
http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/

My heart just breaks for the boy in this story. With limited means to communite and experience the world, he has now been denied one of them. What was the aunt thinking? Why did it take so long for help to be summoned?
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Dearest Reannan,:blowkiss:
Amanda lives less than 20 miles from me and I posted a thread about her months ago in the jury room.
I will see if I can find the link for it.

So much Love and Respect,
dark_shadows
 
Why thank you Dark Shadows! I have never visited the Jury Room. I will take a stroll over there latter and take a look! I already spend SO much time at this....my family thinks I am in need of therapy. I told them to check the yellow pages and when they find a twelve step program for true crime analysis, I will check it out. :p
 
Reannan said:
Why thank you Dark Shadows! I have never visited the Jury Room. I will take a stroll over there latter and take a look! I already spend SO much time at this....my family thinks I am in need of therapy. I told them to check the yellow pages and when they find a twelve step program for true crime analysis, I will check it out. :p
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My very dearest Reannan,:blowkiss:
Click on the link below to see the thread I started about Amanda, it is from Feb of 2007;

http://websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47235&highlight=amanda


There are video links on the first post of the thread.

This is one of the links from that thread, Video reveals world of autistic woman.


So much Love and Respect for you,
dark_shadows
 
Reannan said:
Why thank you Dark Shadows! I have never visited the Jury Room. I will take a stroll over there latter and take a look! I already spend SO much time at this....my family thinks I am in need of therapy. I told them to check the yellow pages and when they find a twelve step program for true crime analysis, I will check it out. :p
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LOL, Reannan - and welcome to the club! ;)
 
misterallgood said:
There was a bit in the article about the boy running around in his underwear outside. I could so see my son doing that if we dropped our guard for a minute (we don't; we have a doorguard on the front door so it can't be opened by kids).

There is a lot of stress in having autism in your family, but there are moments of great joy, and a lot of remarkable things can be learned about human nature. My son has taught me just how strong the human need for reaching out to others truly is. He is almost mute, at 4, but it turns out he has an unusual type of autism sometimes referred to as hyperlexia. Hyperlexic children literally learn to read and write before they can speak, and they teach themselves. My son was putting words together and learning to neatly write the names of things he liked when he was barely 4 -- and in part, it was also his way of getting around his inability to speak the words and still communicate with his mother and me.

It makes me incredibly sad when I think about the people afflicted with autism spectrum disorders who are not born into loving homes, who don't have caregivers open-minded and intelligent enough to learn what they are dealing with. I'm overly-protective of my kids and to some degree my sister (who is 47) already; stories like this just make that worse, somehow.

Thanks for your kind words, filly.

Steve/Mr. A
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Steve, I don't think I knew that you also had an autistic child.

My own son, Richie... has the same form of Autism.
When I read this case I immediately thought that the aunt was obviously mentally ill and went for his eyes because autistic children often have a certain gaze and they do not usually make eye contact.
 
Oh... I just have no words, how incredibly sad. :( It's hard enough to cope in the world not seeing very well (or at all) but to have problems processing the information you are taking in, and making sense of it so you can relate to it, and *THEN* be blinded maliciously? May that little one be able to love, and trust again one day! It makes me cry!
 
I forget to mention my grandson is Hyperlexic, too. The PECS system worked well for a little bit with him, but he got very bored with it. We switch it up for him and he is doing much better.

He literally taught himself sign language from a book we got at Burger King then we moved onto watching things like Signing Times etc. He still uses it when he has a difficult time expressing himself. For the most part now, he is pretty verbal and we are working hard on conversational speech.
 
Oh, SS!! We love our Signing Time videos. They are the only ones that she will watch. There are some pretty boring ones out there.

I'm glad your grandson is so smart and has such loving family members to help him succeed.
 
Bad enough that the poor boy has to deal with being autistic and mute without some crazy loon stabbing him in the eyes. Now he has to deal with blindness too. What is wrong with people?
Sometimes I just cannot fathom what the world is coming too..
Sounds like this woman may have mental health issues..
:furious: :furious:
 
Taximom said:
Oh, SS!! We love our Signing Time videos. They are the only ones that she will watch. There are some pretty boring ones out there.

I'm glad your grandson is so smart and has such loving family members to help him succeed.
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We are lucky to have him in our lives! He is the special flower that just requires a bit more room to grow and extra care, much like a rare orchid!

We have quite a support system set up for him. He has his mom and aunt who live with him, my sister is five minutes away and is there daily. I see my grands every chance I get, but talk to them on the phone every day!
 
I certainly don't want to hijack this thread and turn it into an autism thread, but you can't discuss this crime and NOT discuss autism. His autism....and possibly his aunt's.....demands attention. I hope I don't insult anyone who has an autistic child or loved one. I do not have anyone in my immediate family who has autism, and therefore, you can argue that I have no right to say ANYTHING about this issue. With that preface, I have been fascinated by autism for years. I work in the medical field, and I keep a file on autism. I collect articles that relate to various theories and to the growing nature of the epidemic. Epidemic is what it is, and I think the medical community should hang it's head in shame at the neglect that has been fosted on this issue. After many years of collecting information, and then after watching the Amanda Baggs video, I sort of have to wonder if autism isn't really some form of evolution. I suspect that perhaps autistic individuals have abilities that we, i.e. non-autistic people lack. Perhaps they have resources and talents that we have not yet tapped into. They are obviously cognizant humans. They are AWARE. They are aware in ways that WE are not. I totally respect them, and in one aspect, I hold them in awe. I can only pray, and pray hard, that this particular child can call forth his talents with being able to "interact with his environment" in ways that WE can't, i.e by hearing, touch, smell, taste; and that perhaps he can find another way to connect. I wish I could connect with him and let him know that he is valued and LOVED. In fact, I wish that I could connect with him....and with ALL autistic children and let them know that they are VALUED. They are possibly the key to the future of the human race. IMHO.
 
We certainly need more people like you in our little world, Reannan. (Which actually isn't so little anymore.)
:blowkiss:
 
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