This facebook memory from five
years ago seemed apposite for today
Ferretfingers is obsessed by the
rolling subtitles on news programmes so insists on having the BBC News channel
on (usually with the sound off). Today was not a good day as the BBC seemed
obsessed with commemorating the liberation of Auschwitz (and yes I know how
historically important it is).
It was a bit of a chaotic teatime
what with Willfixit putting up more delft racks and Fester yelling for him from
the kitchen. Even so it was startling to say the least to have Ferretfingers
ignore his burgers and sit howling in tears at the table.
When I finally got him calmed
down enough to speak all he would say, or rather wail while wiping his eye on
his sleeve, was "Auschwitz people".
This is particularly poignant to
me because the Nazis would have considered my beautiful boy as an untermensch
and taken him away to God only knows what form of destruction. Before the Jews
and Gypsies, and all the others, they murdered mentally, physically and
learning disabled German people and children to purify the Aryan race of weak
stock.
Let no one tell you autistic
people don't have empathy.
Just because you can't see
something doesn't mean it isn't there.
