"I am autistic - and I exist": MK Distell's remarks continue to resonate
The outrage over the MK's statements from the Likud about autism and how her son is being treated continues, especially among autistics and their families. "My mother, unlike you, never tried to change me," Nitzan wrote. Ehud added: "I have not yet recovered from Regev, That it is impossible to go lower "
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26/05/2022
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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 (Likud)'s remarks about autism and how to deal with her son when he was diagnosed with autism continue to resonate and criticize on social networks, especially among families of children on the autistic continuum. In order to get her son to talk, she "
pulled
him by the hair, did not let him eat and did not let him drink."
As a parents' association, "Alot regrets the statement that hurts the feelings of many parents of children on the continuum."
Tali Kagan-Belson, a mother of a child on the autistic continuum, attacked Distell in a Facebook post in which she wrote that "According to her, our era, I'm sorry I did not lock you in the room, I did not pull your hair, I did not starve you and I did not make you in survival and in the army .
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A storm on the Internet following the remarks of MK Distell: "There is no such thing as autism"
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"Everyone knows that she has Jura here, but there are no more words."
Distal Atbarian (Photo: Reuven Castro)
"Shallow Monster"
MK Shirley Pinto (right) wrote on Twitter today: "I saw the interview of MK Galit Distel Atbrian on the cruel method, 'the closed room, which used to educate a girl on the autistic continuum. I received hundreds of inquiries from shocked parents, and also complaints about institutions that unfortunately continue "Adopt the method. It will not continue, not in my shift. Write to me about cases you have encountered - I will enter an urgent discussion on the subject."
Distal was quick to respond and sharply attacked Pinto, hard of hearing, calling her a "shallow and opportunistic monster of evil."
She noted that she used the "closed room" method "only a few months when I lived abroad.
" "After that, he was treated in Israel for 15 years in conventional special education settings. And get me out of the mothers.
You are terrified. "
https://twitter.com/GalitDistel/status/1529796024897765376
Nitzan Simon, a young man on the autistic continuum, also described the positive attitude and support he received from his family: “My mother unlike you never tried to change me, she always accepted me and treated me with respect and did her best to give me the tools I needed. She fought for frameworks to 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 does she put herself above us. On the contrary, she still believes in me. "
Gali Deutsch, a mother of an autistic girl, sharply attacked the Likud MK.
"There is a limit to the low level that can accommodate Knesset members in the State of Israel, who use their power, status and exposure, and allow themselves to speak without restraint in their language," Deutsch wrote on Facebook.
"You do harm to people who listen to you and do not know how to distinguish between people who talk nonsense to you. You do harm to society, and you hurt my daughter. I did not pull my daughter by the hair. I gave her food and drink, and I gave her much, much and still she is autistic. "A ten-and-a-half-year-old who tries so hard but her body does not listen to her. I will keep what I think of you as a mother to myself, but who are you? Who are you to decide that there is no such thing as autism?"
Host and radio personality Shay Goldstein uploaded a video with his son Bar, in which he "came out of the autistic closet."
"A 19-and-a-half-year-old bar, a guitarist on. And guess what Galit? We were never prevented from eating or drinking. You spread a terrible Torah."
"What she said shocked me," Barr added.
"There are much better and key ways than the ways Distell has talked about. First thing - I am autistic and I exist. Do not make me, autism and the plethora of autistics in the country a tool in your and your party's dirty political game."
Actor and comedian Tomer Sharon was even sharper and wrote in response to a video by MK Distell: "What have I seen now? She starved and imprisoned her son and tells about it as if it was a method of treatment?
Hello, police. "
Aviv Yashar, who also identified himself as a high-functioning autistic, wrote that the way Distell treated her son was "not learning, and it is not education. What you did to him is torture. Your goal, as a mother, you have achieved. "
Ehud Pfizer added: "I have not yet recovered from the blow that landed from Miri Regev, and then Galit Distel came and proved that it is impossible to descend lower into the abysses of malice and opacity."
Facebook post against MK Distell's remarks (Photo: Official website, from Facebook)
Rotem Weber Shomron wrote: "I do not think it is possible to remain indifferent to the legislature which boasts archaic and cruel methods of treating autism, which eliminates the existence of autism in general, and which creates in many parents feelings of guilt that do not 'do enough' to get their child out of autism. "We are 50 years back in the discourse on the subject of autism and I think this is something we all need to cut down on Ivo."
Eyal Shahal wrote: "I really lack reference to the soul, her son's soul. There is a reference to the brain, to imparting survival skills, but an autistic person is not an animal. He is a person and he has a soul."
Shahar Shimshon added: "Everyone has known for a long time that MK Galit Distel has Jura here, but the fact that she denied her son proper treatment and explains to everyone what she did, there are no more words for that."
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