A Tale of Two Quarterbacks

Dan Marino vs. Doug Flutie It is sometimes amazing how two men in the same profession can have vastly different political views. Dan Marino spent his entire NFL career with one team (the Miami Dolphins) and is enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Doug Flutie played pro football on both sides of the border (where the rules are slightly different) but is best known for a "Hail Mary" touchdown pass he threw while a senior at Boston College, which ultimately earned him the Heisman Trophy. Both Marino and Flutie have an autistic son. However, their sons are at very different points along the autistic spectrum which has in turn led the two to form vastly different views about the subject. Dan Marino's son Mike has Asperger's, and had a virtually normal childhood. He attended a private school, was on the football team, and is now starting a career as a DJ. In a 2005 interview, Marino said that his son was "cured," but has since backed off that statement and is now supporting neurodiversity. A few years ago, Marino's charitable foundation sponsored a television ad featuring Ari Ne'eman, the founder of neurodiversity. Flutie's son Doug Jr. has childhood disintegrative disorder, which is a severe, regressive form of autism that does not improve with age. Doug Flutie Jr. is now 22 years old, but still requires round-the-clock care and likely will for the rest of his life. Doug Sr. dreamed of his son playing in the NFL, but he has never spoken a single word. Doug Flutie founded the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Curing Autism in honor of his son, and due to the severity of his son's condition he obviously supports a cure. Perhaps as consolation, Flutie's daughter Alexa is now an NFL cheerleader for the New England Patriots, which is Flutie's hometown team. I wonder if this subject comes up at all when these two men meet (which they undoubtedly have), and whether it has caused a rift between them. Both men were employed as analysts following their retirement; Marino was recently fired from his job with CBS after it was revealed he had an illegitimate child, and Flutie became a college football announcer for ESPN and now works with NBC. Even during their careers, I am almost positive they played against each other at least once, so even then the issue probably came up. Speaking of the NFL, when is LA gonna finally get a team?

Asperger's and the Virgin Killer

Last week, Elliot Rodger murdered six people in Santa Barbara before turning the gun on himself. He was dubbed the "virgin killer" by the British media because he was still a virgin due to his Asperger's syndrome. Although I was lucky enough to lose my virginity three years ago, the vast majority of autistic men are not. This is tragic, and can only be fixed via a cure, not via better understanding. The reason that Elliot Rodger was still a virgin at age 22 prior to carrying out the murders was due to his Asperger's. It wasn't due to society's poor understanding or anything like that; it was due to his Asperger's and that alone. Had he been able to lose his virginity via a cure for autism or another sort of means, the six innocent people would still be alive. Predictably, neurodiversity has launched into their "autism doesn't equal violence" idiocy, even taking twitter with their idiotic #AutismIsNotACrime. This is the same organization that uses murdered autistic children as political pawns, and then denies it when it comes back to bite them. They even fight against peoples' right to die, which I find truly appalling. Neurodiversity clearly shows very little value for human life. There is no doubt in my mind that Elliot Rodger was a member of neurodiversity. His attitude that sex was owed to him is classic neurodiverse self-centered thinking. The fact that neurodiversity had a deranged killer as one of its members proves how dangerous they really are, and must be stopped at all costs. Had I joined neurodiversity, I may very well have turned into Elliot Rodger. Fortunately, I was able to accept that autism needs a cure, and it was with that acceptance that I was able to lose my virginity despite having Asperger's, not because of it. I wish someone could've told Elliot Rodger the truth before it was too late. If that had happened, all six people would still be alive and maybe even Elliot Rodger would've lost his virginity.