“Somebody Else’s Kids” -A true story, Hayden, L. Torey, Part 2
Sphere Books Limited – 1984
Page 80 – A seven-year-old autistic boy called Boo
had fallen and bit his tongue, the book’s author and
the school headmaster took him to hospital and his
mother also came to fill in interminable papers
And then they stared in disbelief as the doctor started
to suture the gash in the child’s tongue without any
anaesthetic, with Boo’s shrieking cries in their ears,
the EVIL doctor explained no medicine wasted on
Easing the pain of autistic children, and I share the
emotions expressed by the author as she says she had
no “repertoire of responses for something as grotesque
as what was occurring” and then she
also adds:
“He couldn’t do it, this Mephistopheles in
white, this
graduate of Auschwitz!” and “Anger roared up so white
hot that my mind erupted into a thousand cries at once”
Oh, how my head aches on reading this, physical pain
Following emotional disturbance, I’m crying with the
distraught author, the suffering child and the child’s
sobbing mother - a headache like arching spikes in
an overloaded electrical socket, I don’t want to see
Pain, if this author were less poetic and the plot less
interesting, I would not have elected to go through the
pain - who can read this and remain untouched - and if
we were to vote on the doctor’s punishment, who would
Refrain from inflicting immeasurable pain for his evil deed
who wouldn’t delight in sweet revenge for the suffering
inflicted and now we know what hell looks and feels like!
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