Unfortunately, this is nothing like the Schofield case. It was Dr. Phil and the head of CA CPS who got involved and took the kids out of this situation. It was the mother’s constant drug seeking and hitting every psychiatrist within 200 miles for drugs, plus videoing her kids in a drugged state and occasionally sending them to school filthy and high that finally got them involved. The dad is taking credit but he didn’t make anything happen, he just stopped participating when the rumbling got too loud. I’m sure it was doctors, teachers and viewers who kept calling that finally got some attention. (The autists in that thread are almost unbearable with the powerleveling of their own mental illnesses and worship of sweet, sweet Jani-there was even fan art. But maybe they kept pressure on Susan, Michael and Cory. )
The Schofields didn’t have a powerful group of activists who don’t mind sacrificing one little boy if it means they get what they want. So I fear this story is going to end very differently than that one has. And, it’s not a great ending, two kids are developmentally disabled forever because of the drugging and abuse they were put through, but at least now they are away from their mother and safe.
That is unlikely to be the case for Desmond. Dr. Phil won’t touch it as he isn’t going to go against the powerful interest groups in Hollywood. CPS in NYC sounds like it’s as ineffective as in CA and I doubt this case will interest even those who have the power to change it, again for the same reasons Phil wouldn’t touch it.
We see a starving kid put through his paces by a crazy mom, but the story of a young boy happily expressing his sexuality is too alluring for the GLBTxyz movement.
I suspect Desmond is doomed. He may survive his childhood, or may not, but he’ll never be normal. And as soon as puberty hits, he won’t even be a “drag kid” anymore, and like every Hollywood child star finds out, nobody cares when you aren’t young. He’s probably going to end up in prostitution or dead with a needle in his arm, or both, before 25.
It infuriates us, but help isn’t coming. I’d never be happier to be wrong though. I hope our autism can help, (as long as we aren’t creating fan art .)