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Originally Posted by Hellion
Sorry but aside from the few positives I have found in the disorder, it sucks over-all. Maybe some autistics are perfectly happy to pursue special intrests without other people around...but some of us are lonely, we want freinds and we want to be accepted.
Maybe there are a few positives in autism, but at the same time we think and act differently than neurotypicals...so should we be persecuted for that or more accepted? I think more accepted is the right way to proceed.
I have seen some articles that seem to encourge exploitation of people with ASD disorders....like we have special computer skills or this or that that could be used for big buisiness. Well what about those of us who aren't intrested in that and don't have special technological skills?
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Does autism--including its high-functioning form--suck? Yes, as in
hell yeah!
However, the well-meaning attitudes of organizations such as Autism Speaks
make it suck all the more and all the worse. Autism Speaks in particular
speaks for the
families of children with lower-functioning forms of
autism. When will Autism Speaks speak for me? When Martin Luther is canonized,
when chickens have teeth, when pigs fly, when hell freezes over--how many
expressions are there that mean "never"?
The main reason I'm not so interested in a cure for autism is because there
can be no cure for the years I spent with it--years during which I might
otherwise have been able to get a job, qualify for a driver's licence, earn my
own keep, find a sweetheart, start a family of my own, and other stuff
neurotypicals prize so much. Stuff that corresponds closely to the desire to
have friends and be accepted for who we are.