Just when we thought it couldn’t happen here – whoops! Meet Dan, thanks to the charity Action for Children. They’ve created a cunning advert in which a boy with Asperger’s Syndrome is depicted as having been eaten by that scary monster, autism. Just like in the good old US of A.

Yes, folks it was the autism wot dun it, and  the good little boy inside the scary monster (would you believe it? ) kept smacking kids who were bullying him (tut tut, what is this world coming to?) and so they took him into a nice children’s home where he learned to get over his homesickness in only a year and beat the nasty monster who had made him so ‘loud,obnoxious and generally bad-tempered’ about bullies. 

He was able to ‘correct a lot of errors in his behaviour’ thanks to the lovely Carers.

http://www.actionforchildren.org.uk/videos_gallery.aspx?assetcategoryID=87

http://www.actionforchildren.org.uk/gallery_album.aspx?albumid=1

So who’s up for a punch-up with Action For Children? In my book, that wouldn’t be an ‘error in behaviour’ . It would be a pleasure. In fact, a Facebook page  of protest has been filling up rapidly with posters all with behavioural errors. They’re a funny old thing, these developmental disorders. Many people with them tend to grow up (unbelievable though it is) into intelligent and articulate adults, some of them with articulate and funny blogs.

In the last few days AFC has been bombarded with email protests from around the world. That should leave all those media executive directors, like Polly Neave, with eggy faces and bullet holes in their feet. ” We deliberately avoid the more traditional charity methods of playing on guilt or shock” she says. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/dec/29/action-for-children-advertising-nch

So now we know. Errors of behaviour caused by scary monsters isn’t a guilt trip or a shock tactic. That’s OK then.

Beej January 31, 2009 at 22:38

Thank you, Coco! I am now going to step out of my box, and do something I
vowed I wouldn’t. Watch this space. I’ll be back.

Meej
x

Coco
January 31, 2009 at 22:05

Count me in on the petitioning Beej!

Gloria Smudd
January 29, 2009 at 02:25

PS & NB : GSmudd not entirely happy being so flippant on what could be
a serious thread.

Gloria Smudd
January 29, 2009 at 02:13

Tell my ‘respeckful’ twin the next time his feelings get corrupted by
flatulence he ought to try working it out, perhaps even with a pencil, instead
of just spouting a lot of hot air and resorting to shouting; suggest he takes
a few deep breaths, pauses to catch his wind and logs on to the current
motion.

Beej January 29, 2009 at 01:52

He said almost word for word the same about you, but added extra expletives
– which is allowed for the elder twin.

But he was shouting out of the toilet door at the time of our interview,
and the tape was corrupted by flatulence, so maybe he was trying his best to
get his feelings out. Who knows?

You must be so proud of him. He said he respecks you. I think that’s what
he said. It was a kind of respecky bruit when I mentioned your name………

Gloria Smudd
January 29, 2009 at 01:42

That Danny – he’s got a mouth on him like the most loose-mouthed,
good-looking twin with verbal diarrhoea of all the loose-mouthed, good-looking
twins with verbal diarrhoea you’ve ever met. He needs what I lovingly refer to
as ” a punch up the froak “.

Beej January 29, 2009 at 01:35

You’ll do! At least that’s what Danny told me. His language wasn’t as
careful as mine………..

Hey, just heard we’re putting out an International Academic Statement on
this.

I shall bill you as Gloria, SMud (Summa Cum Laude), Research Fellow,
University of HippoCampus, CA, USA.

Gloria Smudd
January 29, 2009 at 01:27

Erm .. Beej … I’m still here, (recently and wickedly ‘outed’ as Danny De
Vito’s ugly sister) … will I do?

Beej January 29, 2009 at 00:45

Anyone want to join a petition on this?

OK, fine.

I’m gonna have to go with Mitzi and Morton Ann and the USA Big players
then.

I wanted Coco, and Gloria and the inimitable Chat…..