Kelly Preston

[scarlet]

Kelly's been spouting the Kawasaki Syndrome/carpet cleaner story for so long she probably believes it. Just like she believes a sunburn she had when she was a kid came out of her during the Purif. Rundown (as opposed to the massive doses of niacin she surely gulped).

On another note, I remember reading a suck-up article (in Ladies Home Journal?) about this beyotch and her fabulous romantic life.

Was that the article where she talked about she and JT being part of the Mile High Club? Of course, she never specified that they joined together...

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The fact that she and George Clooney were an ""item"" (that's "item" with an extra set of quotation marks, so as to imply super-irony) before Travolta makes me more hopeful for my eventual gay-marriage to Clooney.

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I don’t mean to be so sensitive, but I have autism, and it’s not as bad as people seem to think it is.

Yes, it can. There's no such thing as "just autism," it can vary in severity. Obviously you're a high-functioning autistic if you're posting here, but that doesn't mean Jett Travolta can't be a holy terror if he's severely autistic. I cared for a severely autistic young boy and normally, he would be in third grade, but this was a kid who was that age but couldn't vocalize an entire sentence, couldn't read or write, threw tantrums, etc. So yes, autism can be "as bad as we say it is."

I remember they used to pose with Jett on the cover of Good Housekeeping when he was really young, about Ella's age now. He did have that same "look" that I recognize from caring for the boy; he looks basically normal, but there's something "off" in the eyes is the best I can explain it. I wonder if they started keeping Jett under wraps when he grew older and they could no longer explain his behavior away as just being the behavior of a toddler.

[Yossarian]

Ages ago I saw an interview with Kelly on ET where she was spouting off about this $cieno cleansing nonsense. That time, she also mentioned that all the coke (the Bolivian kind) she had used over her life time started coming out of her pores and frothing out of her mouth. Um, yes. I'm sure your body just stores up all those coke toxins for years and years so that one day a Clam can make it gush out of you.

C-R-A-Z-Y

Oh, and I totally believe that Charlie Sheen did not shoot her accidentally.

[swanflake]

I also remember her saying that some "procedure" had novocaine pouring out of her mouth from years of dental procedures.

scarlet said:

Just like she believes a sunburn she had when she was a kid came out of her during the Purif. Rundown (as opposed to the massive doses of niacin she surely gulped).

I don't even think it's the niacin. I think the Scienos just straight up lie about it. They always say the sunburn "surfaces" in the same shape it was in when they got it. Like they can see the outline of their bathing suit or, in Danny Masterson's case, he saw a word appear where his brother wrote on him with sunscreen.

Does Masterson's story mean the Scienos are pro-sunscreen, though? I'm surprised they don't have something against sunscreen, actually.

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poorfrances said:

I don’t mean to be so sensitive, but I have autism, and it’s not as bad as people seem to think it is.

Yes, it can. There's no such thing as "just autism," it can vary in severity. Obviously you're a high-functioning autistic if you're posting here, but that doesn't mean Jett Travolta can't be a holy terror if he's severely autistic. I cared for a severely autistic young boy and normally, he would be in third grade, but this was a kid who was that age but couldn't vocalize an entire sentence, couldn't read or write, threw tantrums, etc. So yes, autism can be "as bad as we say it is."

I remember they used to pose with Jett on the cover of Good Housekeeping when he was really young, about Ella's age now. He did have that same "look" that I recognize from caring for the boy; he looks basically normal, but there's something "off" in the eyes is the best I can explain it. I wonder if they started keeping Jett under wraps when he grew older and they could no longer explain his behavior away as just being the behavior of a toddler.

Many so-called “severely autistic” people, just because they can’t talk, it doesn’t mean they can’t communicate. Technically I have Asperger's Syndrome, but two of the three people that run this web site are non-verbal autistic, and live in group homes. Yet, somehow, they are able to write for and maintain a web site.

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Many so-called “severely autistic” people, just because they can’t talk, it doesn’t mean they can’t communicate.

The boy I cared for could talk, but not in complete sentences. He could say stuff like "Burger King," but not tell you what he wanted from Burger King, and he might in actual fact mean McDonald's, etc. He could not say, "I want Burger King," or "I want a hamburger," etc. He would say "no" when he actually wanted something because he couldn't distinguish yes and no. He could communicate, but in a very limited way. If you put a piece of paper in front of him, he would scribble all over it - he couldn't write anything. The progress he made was due to having devoted parents and years of intensive therapy.

Autism by definition impairs the ability to communicate - the people who run that website may not be able to speak (perhaps because of related physiological problems as well) but they are lucky that they are functioning enough to be able to write and master web design - and likely that was only accomplished after years and years of therapy. But such is my point: autism varies with severity, and just because there are some autistics who are lucky enough to have mild to middling levels of severity (often reaching those levels by years and years of work in therapy and rehab) does not mean that, as you wrote, all autism is "not that bad" and severe autism does not exist or is some sort of myth. In fact autism is a very serious and debilitating condition.

The gossip is that Jett Travolta has autism, not Asperger's. By the DSM's own diagnostic criteria, social, language and cognitive skills develop at a normal pace in children with Asperger's (often why a lot of people aren't diagnosed with it until they're older) - that's the opposite of autism, where communication, cognitive and language delays are diagnostic requirements. If Jett had Asperger's it would still be awful, but not as bad, because there are many who don't get treatment for Asperger's until they're adults but yet manage to still live relatively normal lives anyway (because by nature of the illness they're highly intelligent and that can compensate for other aspects of the illness). On the contrary, I've never heard of any autistic child having been able to live a normal, independent life with no treatment.

Which is why it's so horrible if Kelly and John are denying their kid's autism, which I think they probably are because her story of Kawaski's doesn't add up - the symptoms and treatments she ascribes simply don't exist with Kawaski's. Not recognizing autism is harmful because the only way to treat it is to get your kid the proper teachers and learn the right behavioral therapies. There's no medicine to take that can cure autism, so your only hope it is to work very hard with your kid. If you deny it and the only education your kid gets is from a teacher whose guide is the works of L. Ron Hubbard then your kid is not going to improve at all.

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Let's get back on topic.

[swanflake]

I think Kelly Preston has ugly teeth and should use that Neutrogena microdermabrasion thingy she advertises to sand them down.

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swanflake said:

I think Kelly Preston has ugly teeth and should use that Neutrogena microdermabrasion thingy she advertises to sand them down.

Thank you Swanflake, for getting us (me) back on topic.