This almost made me throw up when I read it.

I have provided a picture of the letter, but I also have typed it out for you-


   To the lady living at this address: 

I also live in this neighborhood and have a problem!!! You have a kid that is mentally handicapped and you consciously decided that it would be a good idea to live in a close proximity neighborhood like this??? You selfishly put you kid outside everyday and let him be nothing but a nuisance and a problem to everyone else with that noise polluting whaling he constantly makes!!! That noise he makes when he is outside is dreadful!!!!!!!!!! It scares the hell out of my normal children!!!!!!!! When you feel your idiot kid needs fresh air, take him to our park you dope!!! We have a nature trail!!! Let him run around those places and make noise!!!!!!! Crying babies, music and even barking dogs are normal sounds in a residential neighborhood!!!!!! He is NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He is a hindrance to everyone and will always be that way!!!!! Who the hell is going to care for him?????? No employer will hire him, no normal girl is going to marry/love him and you are not going to live forever!! Personally, they should take whatever non retarded body parts he possesses and donate it to science. What the hell else good is he to anyone!!! You had a retarded kid, deal with it...properly!!!!!!! What right do you have to do this to hard working people!!!!!!!!! I HATE people like you who believe, just because you have a special needs kid, you are entitled to special treatment!!! GOD!!!!!!!!

Do everyone in our community huge a favor and MOVE!!!! VAMOSE!!! SCRAM!!!! Move away and get out of this type of neighborhood setting!!! Go live in a trailer in the woods or something with your wild animal kid!!! Nobody wants you living and they don't have the guts to tell you!!!!!!

Do the right thing and move or euthanize him!!! Either way, we are ALL better off!!! 

Sincerely,

One pissed off mother!!!!!

I can't pinpoint which emotion I felt was strongest because this letter elicited so many. This letter was slipped under the door of a young autistic boys home about two weeks ago in a suburb of Toronto. The Royal police are searching for the culprit that wrote this but have already said that it does not meet the threshold of "hate" crime... they are pursuing other criminal offenses. What do you think? Pretty high bar if you ask me.

I have had a few discussions with friends about this and it has continued to gnaw at me. This past weekend while away on business I was talking with a friend about this and it made me think of all the difficult and frustrating times we live with. And I shared that... There are certain things I have never in my life said or really even thought about until this very moment... like, "Oh, you're so lucky you don't have a special needs kid" or "I wish it was never born" or "Why me?" Ok, we have asked our higher powers on occasion why we have the load which we do. But I think we all have probably felt that before and it's an understandable thought.

As for the author of this vile letter... I wonder how happy they are on life. I wonder what brings joy to their day and what makes them eager to rise and shine every morning. Hmm.

This letter is hateful. I never get political or too controversial on my blog, nor anywhere else online... but as hard as I try this letter made me see red. Even as I sit here I am trying to understands what would motivate someone to do such a thing. In the end I think it says one thing and one thing only... It says so much more about the letter writer than it does the recipient. And for that... I can only pray for this sad mother... and yes, I hope she gets caught... the coward.

ps- as I grow up and live each day it is becoming very clear to me some of the answers of life. This sad letter makes clear some of those... love, compassion and empathy are what ails our world.