Aspies For Freedom

It's interesting that the words shame and suffering would be used. I think the Mother felt misplaced guilt for taking the drug, even though she had no way of knowing there might be a problem.

I think she felt also thought that people would look at her daughter and blame her for her child's deformities because she took the drug (again not likely).

I think her Mother felt that killing the child would take away some of the misplaced pain and misplaced guilt that she felt. The question is, how do we educate people that this is not the right path to choose, how do we eliminate such ignorance? Perhaps such an aim can not be fully achieved in the near future, but we can teach by example.

My primary school headmistress took this drug. Her daughter had an unusually formed hand. She became a teacher too I believe. She used to come in sometimes to help her mother teach us.

I hope it is not until the moment I die, I hope I have moments absent from suffering, moments of clarity, free from dellusion and attatchment and craving! See Theravada Buddhism

Well-played, Neo. :-)

There's suffering contained in happiness and vice-versa. Getting a tattoo, giving birth. If you ask me, the boundaries blur between suffering and non-suffering. What is one if not the other? If life was nothing but pleasure, pleasure would not exist. My pain as an Asperger's man is a reference-point for the joys life brings me.

Here's one: what would it be if neither suffering or non-suffering, neither enlightenment nor ignorance?

;-)