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quote:This is like having a 'Woman Speaks' group where the board of directors are all men. Or a 'homosexuality speaks' where its all straight people, talking about how much of a burden homosexuality is and gosh darnit won't it be nice once we have a cure? The best you'd be able to get is a high-functioning autist, who would not necessarily represent the needs of low-functioning autists. But yeah, I guess a token autist would be nice.  quote:Or even that and deafness, which is generally considered entirely negative in its effects, but doesn't involve any harm to the person other than being deaf. "Other than having no movement capability without some outside mechanism, being quadriplegic involves no harm to the person." quote:In a very real sense, a cure, if it existed, would by its very nature effectively kill the autistic person in favor of having someone entirely different inhabit the body. Just like a cure for paranoid schizophrenia would fundamentally change the person (since they would no longer suffer from the effects of paranoid schizophrenia); I'm not sure what the point of this is?
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E-Tank posted:You do remember that homosexuality was at one point, labeled a mental disability and disorder, and attempted to be fixed via chemical castration? So you're saying that autism isn't a mental disability? 
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rkajdi posted:Could you imagine if we had similar BS going around when anti-psychotics were first invented? Pretty certain the Birchers were (and Scientology keeps the tradition going).
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SedanChair posted:Yes, medicate all who are guilty of thought deviance. Lobotomies for all! Hooray! 
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