Latest News!
- Kelly Osbourne To Consider A Boob Job When She Gets Older
- Melanie Griffith Having Therapy Sessions With Her Family
- Peter Andre Doesn't Want Ex-Wife Katie Price's Millions
- Jason Statham Avoided Ex-Girlfriend Kelly Brook At Awards Show
- Pixie Lott's Parents Thought She Was Mute When She Was Younger
- Simon Cowell Says The Beatles Would Have Failed Auditions On "The X Factor"
- Hugh Hefner Files For Divorce After 11 Years Of Split From Wife
- Leona Lewis To Be Immortalized In Wax
- SEE MORE NEWS
RSS 2.0
Google
My Yahoo
Bloglines
Netvibes| Celebs | TV | Life Style | Fashion | Music | |
| Home > Gossips | |
|---|---|
|
|
Denis Leary Blasts Autism As A Joke; Autism Society Responds To His "Ridiculous" Belief |
|
October 15, 2008
|
|
|
Denis Leary's view on autism has irked the Autism Society of America. The "Rescue Me" actor said in his new book that the buzz around the brain development disorder is caused by parents. In Why We Suck: A Feel-Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid, Leary slams kids with autism as "morons" who are "stupid" and/or just plain "lazy." He writes, "There is a huge boom in autism right now because inattentive mothers and competitive dads want an explanation for why their dumb-ass kids can't compete academically, so they throw money into the happy laps of shrinks... to get back diagnoses that help explain away the deficiencies of their junior morons." "I don't give a [bleep] what these crackerjack whack jobs tell you - yer kid is NOT autistic. He's just stupid. Or lazy. Or both." Unsurprisingly, the Autism Society of America lashes back at the actor, saying, "For Mr. Leary to suggest that families or doctors conspire to falsely diagnose autism is ridiculous... [His] remarks reflect the same misconceptions of autism being caused by bad or unemotional parenting that were held over 50 years ago." |
|
| (c) AHN - All Rights Reserved. | |
|
|
|
| NEXT: Reese Witherspoon Says Boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal Is "Very Supportive," On Cover Of Vogue Magazine | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Advertisement |
|---|
| LATEST PHOTOS OF TOP CELEBS | ||
|---|---|---|
 |
 |
 |
| Holly Madison | Tilda Swinton | Lady Gaga |
 |
 |
 |
| Paris Hilton | Liv Tyler | Kylie Minogue |
|
||||||||||
  READ ALL STORIES |
||||||||||
