I’m writing this to clear something up. A few years ago I posted a comment on a Washington Post article written by the mother of a special needs child. The topic of the article had to do with the use of certain words that have a valid use in our language, but that are often used hurtfully by so-called normal people.
I posted my full name after my comment because in general I’m not a huge fan of posting comments anonymously – it tends to bring out the worst in people. What I didn’t expect was that a subsequent poster would respond to my comment by including my full name at the beginning of her post. When her comment excerpt comes up in Google search results for my name now it looks like I wrote it, when it is exactly the type of thing I would never write:
The comment I actually did write defended the author of the article, Susan Senator, against the type of comment pictured above. As the aunt of a person with special needs I feel really strongly about this type of thing, and in the interest of keeping truthful information flowing around on the Internet I’m posting this explanation because I can see how it might be misleading to someone who doesn’t click on the article link and scroll down looking for my name to find my comment on the article.
That’s it – a little departure from real estate. Happy New Year, everyone!
