THIS POST HAS BEEN MOVED TO;
https://mitchellsgadfly2.wordpress.com/2024/09/03/congress-bill-causes-mitchell-to-show-his-true-colours/

Loud alarms sounded this morning upon seeing this and it would take way too many characters to fix this, so I’m putting an entry here instead.

Firstly, Daisy, there is no neurodiversity movement in Mitchell’s definition. ND is the whole human race – not just Autism. So such an entity can say anything.

This is interesting and not something I’ve heard before. So how do you describe variations (extreme and minor) in ability to function? Or perhaps is it that the people with level 3 autism don’t experience any variations?
Daisy A. Burr, Ph.D. @daisyaburr on March 15 at 11:53pm AEDST

i use terms low functioning to describe nonverbal, more severe high functioning someone like me, but not sure where the dichotomy between different levels begins and ends
Jonathan Mitchell @autismgadfly on March 16 at 2:09am AEDST

It’s infinite – and Mitchell wouldn’t know this because he totally ignores the truly high functioning as irrelevant. This is his cure mantra at work. People at Level 3 have variations. It’s called sensory overload out of serious sensory sensitivity.

Thanks for response! I actually meant variations within people, because that is how I understand the role of masking and burnout (from the OP).
Daisy A. Burr, Ph.D. @daisyaburr on March 16 at 2:53am AEDST

Masking and burnout are phony concepts made up by neurodiversity proponents people don’t regress from low functioning to high functioning or vice versa
Jonathan Mitchell @autismgadfly on March 16 at 4:02am AEDST

Oh yes they do!! Mitchell is lying. Sensory overloads CAN cause regressions and have! And recoveries from said sensory overloads can be reversed and have! Masking is absolutely there as is burnout – the latter is another senosry overload and the former is a response to society pressing the normal button (when normal is a dryer setting!). Daisy, your understanding of both is correct as I imputed in my first reply above.

Thanks! Yes that’s what I was thinking—so masking and burnout don’t affect level 3 autistic people, they are always unable to function. Sound like a core indicator of level 3 is being unaffected by the environment.
Daisy A. Burr, Ph.D. @daisyaburr on March 16 at 4:26am AEDST

On the contrary they are overloaded by the environment. That’s sensory sensitivity leading to sensory overload. Burnout is also a factor, except that it happens constantly. Masking though is physically impossible although they try just to stop the sensory overload and can’t because it requires someone else’s help and they unfortunately can’t communicate the fact.

Or perhaps you mean that level 3 autistic people do not function better or worse over time based on their environment, including variables like masking and burnout
Daisy A. Burr, Ph.D. @daisyaburr on March 16 at 2:58am AEDST

Level 3s function pretty badly most of the time I doubt most of them understand the concept of masking
Jonathan Mitchell @autismgadfly on March 16 at 4:22am AEDST

This is a massive putdown by Mitchell thinking that Level 3 Autistics are dumb. They aren’t. They are overloaded. Thanks for noting in reply that you recognise this thought line, Daisy.

I am not certain, but I think a decent definition of masking is pretending not to be autistic and mimicking non-autistic people. And I think @autismgadfly‘s point is that level 3 autistic people don’t have that capacity.
Daisy A. Burr, Ph.D. @daisyaburr on March 16 at 4:32am AEDST

I don’t believe any legitimately dxed person does
Jonathan Mitchell @autismgadfly on March 16 at 5:30am AEDST

This is Mitchell in a nutshell, Daisy. He thinks people like you and I can’t mask. I don’t know about you but I choose not to, because I see it as a medntal health threat. A burnout threat if you like. Mitchell is lying like he always does – trying to shut down positives (like your PhD – good for you) as though they are impossible to achieve. His definition of Autism is narrower than even the DSM-IV let alone the DSM-5.

That’s sort of interesting—so the ability to mask is a filter for whether or not you’re autistic. I wonder if the logical conclusion to that is that only people who also have a LD are autistic. If you don’t also have a LD, you’re not autistic.
Daisy A. Burr, Ph.D. @daisyaburr on March 16 at 6:06am & 6:08am AEDST (combined)

Nope there are certainly milder forms of autism or some recover far more than others as toddlers but no autistic person can truly mask
Jonathan Mitchell @autismgadfly on March 16 at 6:14am AEDST

Oh what a load of rubbish. Autistics were masking left right and centre in the old days because the jobs were there to be able to do that! It’s partly why DX numbers went up as specialised positions at entry level disappeared as we had this multiskilling nonsense that put us out of employment! I can mask when I’m in my element as an example. The only ones who truly can’t are the ones who don’t even try. I know of one example there but I won’t ID that person.

Why do you think autistic people can’t mask if that’s not explained by a LD?
Daisy A. Burr, Ph.D. @daisyaburr on March 16 at 4:32am AEDST

it’s like asking why someone in the later stages of multiple sclerosis can’t pretend they’re walking unaided
Jonathan Mitchell @autismgadfly on March 16 at 9:17am AEDST

This is a ridiculous analogy like a previous one Mitchell gave. Daisy, he doesn’t want to hear the real truth. Masking is not impossible – LD or no LD. In some cases it’s automatic – it’s a part of being human. Part of being neurodiverse. The same thing.

I see, so the inability to mask is from not being able to deduce what you “should do,” but that inability isn’t a LD, it’s a communication deficit core to autism.
Daisy A. Burr, Ph.D. @daisyaburr on March 16 at 8:35am AEDST

no, it’s just some sort of neurologic disturbance, probably involving either noradrenergic and/or gabanergic pathways in the brain involved in inhibition, so the person is to handicapped to control their behavior
Jonathan Mitchell @autismgadfly on March 16 at 9:17am AEDST

Daisy, the communication deficit you speak of is right and Mitchell denying it in the terms he did is wrong. But that deficit can be overcome through manual trial and error. I speak through experience on that. It’s not perfect because we lack social instinct (a more specific communication deficit). This idea of a neurological disturbance is akin to the R word and I won’t cop that. I hope you would feel the same about that.

My previous entries where will show you more, Daisy. You should also read my blog on him – https://mitchellsgadfly.wordpress.com – and there is also this;
https://autismagainstfascism.wordpress.com/jonathan-mitchell/

Ellie Taylor blocked him on Twitter. Mitchell blocked me because he is scared of me (I get this material from someone else). I respectfully recommend you block him because he seeks to keep people scared of Autism. We can’t have that.

On the blog entry last night I made mention that I would look into the hashtag that Jonathon Mitchell brought up; neuro[beep!]ed.

It is ineffective.

When I logged in to Twitter last night, I looked for it and only three people had used it that I could see (Mitchell makes four) since December 10. @LansleyAnna, @auinappropriate and @NessaAudrey88. All three of them are Autism haters like Mitchell. There is also an account using the same offensive name – but it hasn’t tweeted since January 3, 2016.

One person who used it before December 10 just the once pretty much mocked it and in a clever way. The whole current thing began on December 7 on my search – then it leaps back to 2015 (the year the account was created) with just seven tweets back to 2012.

If I have the time I may do separate blog entries on @LansleyAnna and @auinappropriate. I will say this now – the latter shared a tweet that had a screenshot of a 2021 tweet from an account that has since been deleted from Forest Van Slyke, quote;

As an autistic(sic) person, there’s a very distinct difference between autism(sic) and narcissism. Autistic people don’t treat people badly and blame autism(sic). They’re hyper aware of how they treat people and often apologize(sic) profusely.
Forest Van Slyke @forestvanslyke on Twitter on March 22, 2021 at 9:39pm (time zone unknown)

This is absolutely right! I know a lot of Autistics who are in that boat, as indeed I am – or was because I made the effort to learn from my errors and as a consequence reduced them. Sometimes I don’t know I’ve upset someone because they hide it, but when they don’t I notice. Back before I was diagnosed it was often the case that I didn’t know why and I wanted to know but they wouldn’t tell me as they figured I should know. That’s social instinct – something we lack naturally. I also know two who use Autism as an excuse – one isn’t Autistic at all and the other I think is but won’t learn. Both are narcissistic, but the second one hasn’t actually blatantly used Autism as a specific crutch. They just demand things that they aren’t entitled to. I’m not going to be any more specific than that in either case. My friends will know who the first one is as I did share the screenshot on my forum.

For the record – I added “sic” in this case to the tweet I quoted simply to show where I would have spelled it differently. The capital A of course and s instead of z in the one exception.

For the first time in awhile I decided to pay a visit to Manuel Casanova’s blog, Cortical Chauvenism, and came across a blog entry from another nitwit who wants to be cured of Autism. I’ll break this down piece by piece.

How ridiculous the world has become, there are many people who are prejudiced against those who are not in favor of Neurodiversity, and who are in favor of «martyr mothers». The most absurd thing is that this prejudice comes from activists who seek to educate these same parents, as if it were a competition to see who can charm them first.

YES! I WANT A «MAGIC PILL» FOR AUTISM on June 5, 2023

The ones who are making it a competition are those who want a cure. THAT is what is ridiculous. Prejudice against a eugenic practice is not a bad thing at all.

They have a tendency to make a cult on social media, where there is no disagreement, where risking opposing points of view is to create discord and makes you look like a sinner. Did Neurodiversity forget the «diversity» of thought?

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Neurodiversity has been misdefined here – typical of a curebie. Diversity of thought is not neurodiversity by the way. The only cult is the cult of the cure in this instance.

It seems that if you have sympathy for the suffering of a mother who uses a better nutrition option to make her child’s body healthy, that makes you a «martyr ally».

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That rather depends on why the nutrition options are being used. If they are doing the right thing through a nutritionist, no problem. If they are doing their own thing thinking it will cure Autism – no sympathy because it is more than likely they are harming their child.

It seems that if you are moved by a mom using extracts in supplements to give her child a peaceful sleep, that makes you a cure seller.

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Again, that depends on who is guiding it. If a doctor is trying to help an Autistic child sleep, then fine. Especially if the doctor is familiar with Autism and knows what he or she is doing.

It seems that if you are touched that a mother wanders from therapy to therapy for a desperate solution for a child who won’t stop mutilating their own body, that makes you want to normalize the autistic person.

YES! I WANT A «MAGIC PILL» FOR AUTISM on June 5, 2023

Yet again, that depends. If they are going from therapy to therapy and it’s not working to stop the self harm then fine – unless they go to these therapies seeking a cure for Autism. Autism is not causing the self harm by itself. There’s another factor in play there and that is what needs to be dealt with.

Of course I agree with a cure for people with autism WHO SUFFER. You miserable, ego inflated piece of trash who think the world revolves around your «high functioning».

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NO ONE suffers from Autism, unless they allow it. The suffering is from other factors that being Autistic may or may not exacerbate. This is usually the result of refusing to adjust to be being Autistic. Coronel thinks the world revolves around her view of functioning judging by this remark.

I prefer advocacy that tries to DO SOMETHING for those adult autistics in diapers, autistics who smash their heads into walls, autistics who can’t sleep a wink at night, autistics who have pains that never leave their bodies, autistics who have no use for seeing a person behind a screen muffling a disability while using inspirational words.

YES! I WANT A «MAGIC PILL» FOR AUTISM on June 5, 2023

Well you fail in advocacy the instant you seek a cure for Autism. The way to do something about all those factors is firstly to find the source of the sensory overload that put them in that place to begin with. Don’t touch Autism itself. That can’t be changed. The next step however can be. That is what I support.

Let’s see what the keyboard warriors did.

1-Make a bad name for therapies to keep people with severe autism from learning how not to urinate and defecate on themselves.

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I’m going to guess that this is talking about ABA (Applied Behavioural Analysis). Used as an aversive will do nothing to solve the issue – it will only set it in concrete. In that regard, ABA deserves the bad rep. Anyway – sensory overload is the source and there is no evidence of ABA dealing with sensory overload.

2-Using successful cases to create an atmosphere of toxic optimism where autism only happens because of the attitude you have towards life.

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Optimism is never toxic. The reflection on Autism here is out of fantasy land and demonstrates a lack of understanding of what Autism actually is.

3-Sharing their own experiences and generalizing the whole spectrum.

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The concept of generalisation is in the eyes of the beholder. I am just as likely to talk about those Coronel is talking about as I would about people like me. Autism at the base is the same for all of us. Like I said – the difference lies in the next step.

4-Approaching the right of people with autism who barely speak and have intellectual disabilities knowing that they cannot express their disagreement with Neurodiversity.

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No one can disagree with the concept of Neurodiversity. Neurodiversity is. Like the blue sky. The human race is inherently diverse. You can’t dispute that. We’re not all male, six foot tall, thin with blue eyes, brown hair and straight. And I haven’t even mentioned brain difference – the very core of the definition of neurodiversity. I am certain that once the sensory overload is found, Autistics in that realm of a lack of speech and so on will be able to express themselves. Of course, this has to be done in childhood.

5-Joining an ideological movement that sees the disability of autism as a «construct of an imaginary collective».

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Autism is only a disability is you let it be one. It’s the same with being blind, deaf or in a wheelchair. This comment from Coronel smacks of ableism.

6- Joining an ideological movement that is blocking treatments and scientific research around the world.

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The only ones blocking proper research and proper treatment are the curebies. There is plenty going on in this space. It’s just not towards a cure.

7- Joining an ideological movement that encourages self-medication and self-perception of a serious disability.

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Forget medication for Autism, and as I have already said – it is not a disability unless you let it be one. What is encouraged is acceptance. Lack of it is hateful.

This could well be the agenda of a bunch of negligent people with faulty morality to make judgments of what they call a «miracle pill», if that «miracle pill» undoes genetic diseases that afflict people with autism Bring it, if that «magic pill» makes the severely ill live without gouging eyes, gouging teeth, nails, scalp, Bring it, if that «magic pill» makes the severely ill able to get a job and an independent life, or share reflections and desires with their own caregivers, bring it.

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Autism is not a genetic disease – or any disease come to that. A pill does not stop a sensory overload. A pill does not provide the adjustment lines. A pill does not stop Autism. It can’t – that’s a death sentence. A pill is not needed. Understanding is what is needed from the get go and Coronel has none.

I prefer a «miracle pill» and not to be behind a screen ranting against the «evil neurotypicals that hurt my feelings» or spreading videos of «how to recognize an autistic person in 10 minutes», I prefer a «miracle pill» and not to waste time in speculations from sociology or psychology, I prefer a «miracle pill» and not to be left with a bad memory of someone for saying «no» to an ideology that harms real people with autism.

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You prefer something that will never happen. And that REALLY harms Autistic people because it holds them back. There is no instant result. Expecting one or even wanting one is hateful as I said and shows no understanding of Autism. Neurotypicals try to define us in the same way you do, Coronel, and it’s wrong. It is hate speech. It keeps people scared. This isn’t COVID-19.

I prefer to stay with my principles and be able to sleep at night while resisting to not fall into the banality of the principles of those who defend Neurodiversity.

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Your principles are those of someone who has given up on a real life, and respect and understanding for Autism. If you sleep at night with that in your conscience then you are royally screwed. There will be no magic pill – as in one you can swallow with whatever liquid you prefer. The issue isn’t Autism. The issue is a number of other things, and it’s idiots like you, Mara Coronel, who are trying to prevent this and in the process being the TRUE hold back to those things you claim you want. Shut up and let us do our work.

When the Yuval Levental article was deleted on the Autism Wikia by staff on the grounds of their refusal to host it (due I assume to a number of complaints about it that were never referred to me for verification or anything) I made plans to host it somewhere else. Word Press seemed to be the best place but I couldn’t just make it about Levental. Wikia also instructed me to not use the term Autistic Enemies, and after being warned by allies that I risked being banned from Wikia I changed it to Unreliable sources. I was never happy with that.

The final straw was the deletion of the Christian Chandler article for the same reason. I promptly deleted the other enemy articles after saving them.

So everything from the old Autism Enemies part of the Autism Wikia site was transferred here, along with some of the material from my own website. I wanted to set it all up the way it was on Wikia with sources and a reference list, but in some cases that was taking too long. It took a long time because doing superscript for the notes needed a coding examination, and I also needed to recheck sources. This was especially needed for the Levental article.

As it stands right now I had to throw on what was on my original website with the appropriate disclaimers for now as the hosting time runs out. The Levental article is incomplete and a few articles are still in draft and will brought out when they are ready. When I complete the work the entries will be linked to the Autism Wikia as appropriate. It should include screenshots where I can.

I have also added the blog entries from my website that were about enemies that don’t fit anywhere else.

I’m putting this here instead of elsewhere for two reasons – the first is this appeared on Facebook and second it is a reflection more general than either person named.

This was sent to me by my inner circle as I have blocked Mitchell and this was on his timeline. It’s about a Federal District Court decision that Donald Trump as President can’t block anyone on Twitter. I’ll be commenting on that on my next podcast in more detail and there may be updates on that between now and the first Thursday of June when I record it.

My focus here is firstly on Mitchell, who responded to a suggestion by someone called Twilah Hiari that Mitchell could be President with this;

i can dream i guess, my first executive order would be firing all the neurodiversity people from their government posts.

And then what? Have a bunch of haters replace them? I can safely say that Congress would reject any nominations to government posts like that! So in the end he wouldn’t have a say in it! That’s just typical human hate – something that would prevent Mitchell from ever being elected as President.

Amazingly, Mitchell has Best on his friends list and here’s what Best said;

Let’s hire that judge to rule against all of the politicians who blocked me on Facebook.

They blocked Best because he’s a maniac, so he would be a blatant exception. As well as the fact that FB’s blocking procedure is far more effective than Twitter’s

The pair of them are out of line – as usual.

This is disgusting! I caught this comment via Mitchell’s blog. It was made in the comments of an Age of Autism entry titled “The IACC (I Am Completely Clueless) Meets Again” (and that’s an issue in itself courtesy of the erstwhile idiot Dan Olmsted);

“Does focusing on access barriers rather than cure make a wheelchair user less of a stakeholder in discussions re physical disability?”

From my taxpayer perspective the answer is No, they don’t have a right to be there. No one has the right to refuse a cure or a treatment that would make them less needy of state-sponsored services.

I would much rather see my tax dollars going towards a CURE, I would rather be paying to ERADICATE autism than paying for your wheelchair access barrier and many millions of wheelchairs to come.

So yes, unless a disabled person is financially and physically independent they do not have moral right to refuse a cure or treatment. And they especially don’t have any right to sit on a panel that was created to COMBAT that disability.

YOU SICK HATEFUL BASTARD!!!

I’m going to take this apart piece by piece.

No one has the right to refuse a cure or a treatment that would make them less needy of state-sponsored services.

BS number one. Everyone has the right to refuse something that will change them to something that they don’t want to be. That’s like saying we should change our skin colour if a method is found to do it. That’s eugenics by default!

I would much rather see my tax dollars going towards a CURE

I would rather your tax dollars go towards helping people cope! Especially as searching for a cure is a WASTE OF TIME!

I would rather be paying to ERADICATE autism than paying for your wheelchair access barrier and many millions of wheelchairs to come.

Right, let’s throw away wheelchairs and stop people from getting around when they can’t walk. This moron is completely deluded! And that’s a statement that supports genocide by the way!

So yes, unless a disabled person is financially and physically independent they do not have moral right to refuse a cure or treatment.

As said before, YES WE DO! Because no one has the right to force change on us like that. NO ONE!!

And they especially don’t have any right to sit on a panel that was created to COMBAT that disability.

The idea of combat from this idiot seems to be the same as Mitchell’s and I’ve already said on Mitchell’s Gadfly that he’s wrong. Combating Autism can also be done the way we want it done – with understanding, supports, reasonable supports and accommodations. And it’s the only way to go.

Taxpayer will continue to pay his taxes for that. If he or she doesn’t like it, this idiot can just leave the country he or she lives in and go somewhere else.

Or go take a long long walk on a short pier.

It’s like I said on the Left Brain Right Brain Blog in reply to Sullivan’s entry on the matter;

There’s just a slight chance that I may have a precedent in the next few months that labels this sort of talk as hate speech against the Autistic Spectrum.

Of course, I’m talking about the action against Best.

I have picked up on Zach Lassiter’s blog that Harry “Socrates” Williams is being sued for 100,000 pounds (he’s in the UK) for damages. I went to his New Republic blog, and I looked at the most likely source – a reprise of a post that Alex Plank had deleted from Wrong Planet upon what appears to be a whine by Autism Speaks. He denies it, but I for one don’t believe him.

Unlike John Elder Robison, I’m now starting to think that Alex is only taking the money from Autism Speaks for the sake of the money, and he has no intention of undermining the influence of Autism Speaks.

But in the comments, I realised something was happening. Something very dangerous. And that is Williams and Kent Adams trying to start what they call “Neurodiversity 2.0”.

I have two big problems with this.

1. It justifies the line being used by those who seek to cure the Spectrum – that being that Neurodiversity is the name of a movement (which it’s not, it never has been and it never will be).

2. The manner in which they are promoting this splits the Autistic community – separating LFA’s and HFA’s from the rest of the Spectrum to the point that they claim it doesn’t exist.

Alex Plank is definitely Autistic, as I am. He may have an unfortunate attitude, but don’t blame that on his being on the Spectrum. He’s taking the selfish aspect of himself beyond reasonable lines (it would appear). If one wants to really help those on the Spectrum (all of them), the correct path to follow if you can is the one of Ari Ne’eman.

Neurodiversity will never change in it’s correct and proper definition. Williams and Adams are splitting the community with their undermining of the Spectrum in the manner that they are. Alex Plank’s opposition to welfare should be taken in context – everyone on the Spectrum who can function is entitled to make a living. I would support that view, but not the way Plank is doing it. And he lied when Williams quoted him as never having got a lay. Alex is sexually active with his girlfriend Katie Miller.

Neurodiversity 2.0 will not last very long. With only two soldiers it will be swamped by the real warriors who recognise the whole Spectrum for what it is – Autism. The medical community will officially come online with this fact in 2013 when the DSM-V is released to replace the DSM-IV. And I will be doing my best to make sure that people know it.

After Elyse Bruce and Thomas Taylor – the co-owners of the blog concerned – won the Idiot of the Month award as voted on by the Phil’s World membership, someone called Mike decided to an attack on me on the said blog. I quickly defended myself but he proved to be a bag of paranoia, and so did Bruce and Taylor when they started to mod me out. I guess they are afraid of a good debate and prefer cheap shots on people like Marc Rosen, ASAN and so on.

But here’s the core of this thread, and it hit home for me when what looks like Jonathan Mitchell roared in and claimed that a National Autism Registry (which is being proposed in the latest piece of Autism related legislation in the United States) would be a violation of the UN Declaration of Human Rights for the Disabled.

I call BS on that!

Now don’t get me wrong. A public registry would not be a good idea. However a private one that can only be accessed by those who need it is just what the doctor ordered. It provides accurate figures to allow the government to budget properly for the needs of those on the Spectrum – and I’ll bet that’s the core reason why Ari Ne’eman and ASAN support it. If one doesn’t have accurate figures, how can one budget? So the money isn’t put there and as a result, Autistic children get neglected.

Mitchell for example tried to paint the registry as a way for a Motor Registration corporation to refuse to co-operate with an Autistic driver. Sorry, but that’s one group that would NOT get access to the registry (if it works the way it should), and nor should they. The same applies to employers.

By opposing a registry, one opposes pride in being on the Spectrum. That’s a great way to keep Autism in the gutter of the social ladder – and that is a real definition of a human rights abuse.

I was delighted when Craig/Scratcher gave me some information he’d grabbed from You Tube – which may finally allow me to sue to hair out of KGAccount’s head (subject to finances). But that’s not the core of this entry.

I went and had a look at the account of the source (Ultra Maniac 96) and found some comments on a video Adams had done on Amanda Baggs. It looks like UM was given similar information that I was about her – except that he says he got it from Laura face to face.

Adams proved himself to be completely biased on the matter – even to the point of not understanding copyright law. His assertion that the copyright lies solely with the owner of the camera that took the picture is pure BS. The DMCA protects picture content, not camera ownership. By Adam’s logic – the paparazzi can publish whatever picture they want and the subject has no rights whatsoever. BS! The picture (I know the one he’s talking about) has three people who can claim DMCA protection, and it only takes one to take the picture out of circulation. Just because Drucker is in the picture doesn’t mean he is free to violate Amanda’s DMCA rights – along with the fact that he owned the camera that took the picture (irrelevant, Adams!). The taker of the picture – well that claim is the one I would question but that’s beside the point.

In the comments, Adams makes the ridiculous claim that if someone had been on as many drugs as Amanda was on between 1996 and 1999 – they would not have been lucid. You idiot! Amanda was being treated for non existent schizophrenia. Fact. This would have brought on a hallucinogenic state that appears lucid complete with the ability to type and comprehend. She was a different person during that period, Adams! I’m sure I can verify that medically given a chance!

Adams also claims “independent” evidence of either Drucker knowing Amanda for longer than just Simon’s Rock or Amanda being on LSD longer. There is no such evidence. Adams is simply on the Shelley/Droopy bandwagon, and we already know how unstable, volatile and violent that little witch is!

I invite Adams to provide this evidence at the Blog Lobby, if he has the courage that is.