Autism's Epidemic of Drowning
Our children are drowning in an ocean of tears. Below is a sampling of the deaths since June, alone. PLEASE support National Autism Association's campaigns to educate about wandering and drowning. The whitewashing and gaslighting of autism's harsh realities have caused ennui, and so the public has moved onto its next media darling. And our children die with nary a drop of care.
June 24, 2024
Missing 6-year-old boy with autism found dead after overnight search led to Westford lake, police say
June 27, 2024
Missing 12-year-old girl with autism drowned in lake near her home, Fulshear police say
July 28, 2024
Autistic child found dead in Maryland pond after 26-hour search
More than 100 police officers, firefighters and volunteers in and around Bohrer Park in Gaithersburg were searching Sunday for a missing nonverbal 6-year-old.
July 12, 2024
Sutton community devastated by death of 4-year-old girl: ‘There are no words'
June 10, 2024
5-year-old with autism drowns at East Texas lake
June 6, 2024
5-year-old boy with autism dies days after being pulled from Delray Beach swimming pool
6-year-old child dies after drowning in Hillsborough County, deputies say
Deputies responded to reports of a missing child and found the 6-year-old in a body of water.
Parents and lifeguards need to supervise their children whether disabled or not while in and around the water. To heck with autism issue. This statement is about general water safety and adults who took swimming lessons have drowned. We need more well-trained lifeguards and swim instructors and the certification/licensure for such "water people" needs to be government regulated.
I personally am starting to lose sympathy for those people with "fake autism" whose symptoms are caused by some kind of brain damage such as fetal alcohol and drug exposures, "shaken baby", undiagnosed Down's syndrome, and very rarely vaccines injuries. I hate the term "autism" being overused. I have autism and other disabilities, and these "autistic" people's behavior though process and mannerism hardly resemble mine.
I almost drowned a few times as did many people as a kid with and without disabilities.
Posted by: Bill | August 01, 2024 at 09:31 AM
Thank God your son knew how to tread water and that your husband could swim to save him from drowning! I have read so many stories like this about children with autism drowning due to their strange attraction to water. I cry every time I read one of these tragic stories.
Posted by: Gayle | July 31, 2024 at 09:31 AM
Creating a swimmer was a primary goal. I put my son in the water at 4 mos of age. By a year, we were in a pool daily. I never let him play with a flotation device until he was a strong independent swimmer at 3 yrs2 mos.
I believe kids can get a false sense of security when flotation toys are so available.
Posted by: Annie | July 31, 2024 at 08:33 AM
So tragic!
Just like cartoons, autistic children have a strong attraction to water. I wonder why?
One of mine had two close calls. When he was about 3 years old and didn't yet know how to swim, he ran and jumped in the pool while I was still signing us in. He didn't yet have his life jacket on. Thankfully it was in the shallow end, and I ran and jumped in to pull him out. He was OK, but I was a little shaken. After that incident, I signed him up for swim lessons with my neighbor who had a pool. She first taught water safety and how to tread water to "drown proof" them. This probably saved his life when he had his second incident.
My husband and I and three of our sons went on our favorite walking trail which followed a creek for part of the way. As we walked, this same son was intrigued with picking up rocks and throwing them in the water while getting as close to the edge as possible. We reprimanded him for getting so close to the edge and kept a close eye on him. We had had a lot of rain earlier in the week, and our trail took us along a bend in the creek which had filled up and become a muddy "swimming hole" many feet deep. We again warned against getting too close to the edge. My husband and I continued walking, but the older one and this child got a little behind us. Just a few minutes later, the older child came running up and yelled that his brother had fallen into "the swimming hole" part of the creek. We ran back with our son who pointed out his brother TREADING WATER in the middle of the creek. My husband had had water safety training in college and quickly got in and swam to our son to rescue him. I kept a look out for water moccasins. It was a wet drive home. We didn't even have a towel in the car. I was so thankful for his swimming teacher. Things could have gone very differently.
Posted by: Emmaphiladelphia | July 30, 2024 at 03:42 PM