Stephen Hawking's daughter asks Katie Hopkins to STOP making life harder for the disabled
AFTER Katie Hopkins' insinuated Ed Miliband was on "the spectrum", the daughter of Professor Stephen Hawking has written an open letter asking her to stop making disabled peoples' lives harder.
Lucy Hawking, who has an autistic son, spoke out against the controversial journalist today via the Guardian, following her tweet about the Labour Party leader.
The London-based novelist wrote: "It makes me sad when your 'jokes' about Ed Miliband mock people with disabilities.
"I have an autistic son. He’s very sweet, polite, hard-working, kind and generally lovely. But yes, he does stare at people from time to time. Occasionally I have to say to a member of the public that my son is autistic and that I’m sorry he is staring. The reaction is always kind and compassionate."
The 45-year-old continued: "But if he were staring at you, I presume it wouldn’t be okay, that you would make a laughing stock out of him. You would use his disability against him – and you wouldn’t care how embarrassed, hurt or distressed he was."
Lucy went on to question mother-of-three Katie on whether or not she thought that people with disabilities had enough to think about without her nasty comments.
She commented: "Don’t you think kids with autism have enough to deal with already? Don’t you think that they already face enough rejection and social isolation with you making it worse? Do you really think they need you to tell them they don’t fit into society?
"There are lots of kids out there with disabled parents or siblings whose lives just got harder because of you."
The star's letter comes just days after Denise Welch took to Twitter to express her disgust at the outspoken columnist over the same matter.
In reply to Katie's original post, the Loose Women star said: "Wow. We've had mental illness, dementia, weight issues and today… autism. Go @KTHopkins you vile bully."
Denise then took aim at The Sun newspaper, who run the former Apprentice star's column.
"Your columnist @TheSunNewspaper is today belittling those on the autistic spectrum. You must be so proud of her."