Jerry's kids

When I was in middle school i wrote for the school newspaper.  I once wrote an article about the word retarded. I hate the use of that word its disgusting and discriminatory and it hurts. Why can't we just stop being A-hole, you know?  Anyway I like to believe the world or at least my piece of it keeps progressing further from hate and hate speech. I'm aware for some people that means I'm naive but I like to think it's more like hopeful.

Last weekend my Tigers got swept and and that ended our baseball season.  i was reading a bunch of blogs,  Sometimes I read the comments.  Half way down the comments people we were fighting about an outfielder.  One of the commenter's said : what are you a bunch of Jerry''s kids? I gasped. Did he just insult people using my kids disease?  I was livid and then I saw no one, not one person said a thing.

This sickened me on so so many levels.  I mean exactly what is the insult? Jerry's kids are MDA kids and wow to be as brave and smart and loving as an MDA kid would make us all so much better.  Second it's just not okay to use another person difference as a hammer to hit someone else.  Not sure that makes sense mama bear me is writing this.  Third okay do I need a third? It's just wrong.

It's been making me crazy. I hate things like this. I hate that someone could reduce my son and all the people like him to a 2 word insult.  I see this little boy w/ the sweet smile afraid to let people at school see the stool he uses to get in the van. He's afraid of people like random Internet jerk  laughing at him.  

Sometimes I want to shelter him and his sisters but I can't. All I can do and all I will continue to do is try to make people hear me. Robbie is not an insult. He is a beautiful amazing boy that needs love not hate. So shame on you random Internet jerk and I hope and pray that you aren't raising children to be as ignorant as you.