Dustin Hicks was an autistic youth. A teen. Someone who faced very significant challenges and needed a great deal of support. But someone who needed to be respected and valued as a person.
Dustin Hicks was murdered by his mother. News stories are reporting that he was shot in the head. The exact motives are at present unclear since the mother killed herself shortly afterwards.
A TV station in Atlanta reports the story as Dawsonville mother shoots disabled son, self in possible mercy killing.
No. There is no mercy in murder. Just because someone is disabled doesn’t mean someone can justify or downplay murder.
No. Just no.
Our children are our responsibility, not our property. We do not get to kill our children and downplay it because they are disabled and call it mercy.
I can’t go on.
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By Matt Carey
note: I corrected a mispelling in the above after this was published.
Left Brain Right Brain 
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As an autistic man with an autistic son I have … no insight whatsoever except to agree murder is wrong.
I’m pro choice.
But once baby is born you
Fight like fuck to do everything you possibly can for it.
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a person’s worth is not determined by their contribution to the economy
nor by their age, their education, or their abilities
We aren’t any more or less human than any other.
Dustin Hicks was murdered, just as anyone who is shot through the head, is murdered.
The mom knew she was wrong, that’s why she took her self out, too. To cowardly to live with her child and to cowardly to live with prison and possibly the death penalty. COWARD! Prayers for the rest of the family who has to go and deal with this.