How to Deal with the Autistic (and Otherwise Challenged)

As I've mentioned on this blog earlier, an apartment neighbor a few doors down has an autistic girl who has, since July, jumped over my low backyard fence on two occasions and actually either attempted to enter, or actually entered, my apartment. On both occasions, I chased her away, then reported her to apartment management.

Earlier this evening, the same child (about 8 years old) was making her way from the parking lot of the apartment complex to the apartment that she lives in (a couple of doors down from mine). And she chose to shriek at the top of her lungs the entire time. I first heard her shrieks coming from the parking lot, then kept hearing her ear-piercing screams as she made her way to her apartment. As she passed my front window (which was open because of the nice weather), she was still screaming. At which point I yelled at the top of MY lungs through my screen: SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And, miraculously, the little brat immediately DID shut the fuck up. I momentarily scared the Crazy out of her.

The effect of my yelling led me to think: Should we probably not be mollycoddling certain people? The Obnoxiously Autistic (think "Sandy Hook"), the Homeless, the Criminal, the Professional Race/Gender Victims. You can be sympathetic up to a point, but once that point is crossed, then ENOUGH already: Shut up, stop camping on our streets, stop expecting sympathy when the police shoot you when you resist arrest (and when the actual #1 cause of your own deaths is being shot by other young men of your own race, not by police), stop expecting everyone else to buy into your own mental problems (no, you're not a woman, and no, we're not going to start saying "zie/zim/zer" per instrux from Academia).

Perhaps, given the hell-hole state of many cities of our country, it's time for no more leftist mayors or police chiefs or judges. Note to women and "people of color" and other left-wingers who have been placed in positions of power: If you can't handle running your cities or police departments, then turn them over to people who can. You're doing a terrible job. Your mollycoddling is not working at all. You're a poster child for a return to "Old White Men" running things. (Think "Weimar Era." You're exactly that right now.)