A storm on the Internet following the remarks of MK Distell: "There is no such thing as autism"

The Likud MK provoked angry reactions on the net after she shared about dealing with her son, to make him talk, when it was revealed that he was on the autistic continuum: "I pulled him by the hair, I did not let him eat, I did not let him drink." My son, do not use him to bump into me "

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25/05/2022

Wednesday, 25 May 2022, 20:36 Updated: 21:32

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In the video: MK Galit Distel Avital "There is no such thing as autism" (Photo: Knesset Channel)

MK Galit Distel Atbrian caused a stir on social media today (Wednesday) after she shared her struggle with educating her son, who is on the autistic continuum, and claimed that "there is no such thing as autism."

She said to get her son to talk "pulled him by the hair, did not let him eat, did not let him drink".

This statement by the Likud member comes close to the statement of MK Miri Regev, who also caused a stir, when she said this week that "there are no stomach aches for soldiers, battered women or rape cases because everyone understands that this is the rationale."

In an interview with the Knesset channel, Distell Atbrian said that she understood "intuition that there is no such thing as autism. Autism is not a thing. Autism is the avoidance of something. It is the avoidance of a dynamic social interaction, because the brain is not really able to understand it."

She explained that years ago, when her son was 3 years old and starting to lose words, she decided to do everything to get him to talk.

"I pulled him by the hair, I did not let him eat, I did not let him drink, I did not give him anything," she said.

"He forced himself to speak in order to survive. It's terribly hard, it's horribly cruel."

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"There is no such thing as autism."

Distel Atbrian (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Many on social media expressed outrage following the MK's remarks, claiming that the way she raised her son was not normative. A young man on the autistic continuum wrote in a post he posted to the network, And did her best to give me the tools I needed, and she fought so that frameworks would integrate me as equals, so that they would not fall and exclude me.

"" My mother unlike you does not cancel or deny or silence our autistic community and our experiences and voices, nor her name Herself above us, "he continued." Even if we do not agree on everything or hold a dissenting opinion on an issue related to autism, she still believes in me. "

Post written following Distel's remarks (Photo: Official website, from Facebook)

The MK responded to the storm in a tweet she posted on Twitter, where she accused: "An unusual request to the left: Leave my son. Do not use him to bump into me, you will be human."

She continued, "I elaborated on the closed room method in my book adopted by parents, doctors and special education teachers and not in vain: the boy who predicted he would never speak has completed full matriculation, enlisted in the sting and is now learning to play.

I'm proud of my mothers and especially proud of him. "

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