Aspies For Freedom

Autism, at it's most severe is a living nightmare for the individual child or adult, and advocating against a 'cure' is sheer ignorance and cruelty.

Amy and Gareth,
I sincerely hope that one day you will feel some shame for politicizing what is essentialy a serious debilitating condition, and indoctrinating your own belief system via propaganda and scaremongering vulnerable and troubled young adults and children on the autistic spectrum, who come to AFF for support and friendship from others like themselves.
Could either of you honestly say you have any real experience of living with profound autism?
I think you would benefit John Best's example. His relentless effort and determination to 'cure' his son's autism is commendable and is a credit to him.

So you find my opinions offensive? I am pro abortion in early pregnancy, and so I feel entirely comfortable with these terms. I didn't even think about it being possibly offensive, since where I'm from, there is virtually no one who disagrees.

And anyway, this is simply a disagreement, and I won't modify my opinions to avoid offending anyone. I find the idea of valuing primitive beings who are no more than a few cells just because they contain human DNA and maybe vaguely resemble a full-grown human baby, while devaluing more advanced animals, to be pretty stupid.

But I'm not going to defend my opinions on that in detail. This is not a discussion about abortion. I'll simply leave it at that: I was stating my opinion, not being deliberately offensive, and I don't consider it important to express myself in the most diplomatic way possible. I am as opinionated as everyone else here, so why would I put bounds on my opinions just so those who disagree shouldn't get upset?

Because there's a daily limit on how many posts you can have, and I may feel the need to defend myself and/or my opinions before that runs out. I'll add a signature to that account that states this clearly.

There's no bubble to be burst. I'm not blind, why do you think I keep responding? I hear people, I just don't agree with them.

In authoritarian countries, the opinions about democracy, human rights, free speech, and so on, are causing offense to the rulers. Don't you see that "causing offense" is not only dependent on the content of an uttering, but also on the receiver?

Some people cannot handle dissent, so they take offense. Now, I can understand that someone takes offense at personal attacks--I do, too. But I cannot understand why people take attacks on their opinions as attacks on themselves.

I don't think this board should become a mindless echo chamber like the government-controlled media in authoritarian countries, e.g., China. It isn't, currently, but with the way some people act here it might become one. So, unless there's an official statement to the effect that dissenting opinions are unwelcome here, I will continue to present them. If there is, I will leave voluntarily, recognizing that the priviledge of posting here is worthless.

Actually, there are those who think I'm not welcome to post dissenting opinions.

But anyway, of course you can challenge them; but if you can challenge my ideas, then I should be able to challenge yours. And that is what I'm reacting to: the criticism because I simply dear to say what is, round these parts, clearly controversial.

Her post, however, was deliberately designed to offend.

Chris has severe depression, when you're got severe depression, thoughts become very black. If we all love him enough, we might be able to cheer him up a bit, we can but try. I guess also, it is good to let him know when his posts are getting a bit bleak and when he needs to leave out the doom and gloom.