--- Perla <northernstar7112@...> wrote:

> I need to get one thing straight: there is no such
> thing as a
> refrigerator mom and as much as I agree with you, I
> will not
> tolerate you saying this. yes, Freud did formulate
> his theory of the
> refrigerator mom, but even Freud was a MAN who knew
> nothing about
> women and surely as nothing about female autistics.
>

It was Kanner who coined the term "refrigerator mom."
I was just being silly as well as being pissed off.
Those women have been attacking me personally. The
mothers are so uptight they ASSUME that anyone who
mentions trauma is backing some provisional hypothesis
that Bettelheim tossed out. They are so uptight about
it, it makes you suspect they have guilty consciences.
The lady doth protest too much methinks.

Anyway, Kanner noticed that many mothers of autistic
children are cold. It was a simple observation.
There was no formal theory proposed for this, much
less tested, by anyone. And that includes Bettelheim.


See if I'm wrong. Go out there into the fray and see
what happens if you mention neglect--or even simple
trauma. They will want to kill you.

Yours,
Larry



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