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How dare you say you want a cure, in my presence? No cure!!
At the end of my son's schooling his self esteem was zero, he was suicidal. (He didn't get his diagnosis till later).
I loved him heaps and I tried hard to help him to cope. His peers made him feel like a waste of space and effort.
It seems wrong that acceptance has to come as a 'versus' - maybe I misunderstand the interpretation on the word 'versus'.
I'll have to ask this question of you:
I have been known by former teachers to be an excellent writer (written expressive language), but I have consistently baffled them when I explain that it takes me 10-20x longer than the average person to read a book (written receptive language), and that I often have difficulty with reading comprehension (written receptive language.)
My teachers had never met anyone who was so contradictory--at the same time I was among the best writers "they ever had," I had trouble comprehending the subtext/symbolism/meaning of even the simplest books.
Is this probably the same discrepancy you are talking about, here?
How dare you say you want a cure, in my presence? No cure!!
And what makes my personal decisions in relation to my own health anyone else's business?
If you don't want a cure, then YOU don't want a cure. And I support your right to make that decision. That doesn't give you the right to shout over the top of people who think differently.
What does "cure" mean, anyway? JUST fiddling around with genes? Why can't "cure" mean something like a headband with some electrodes on it that I can wear at night to normalise my more erratic brain waves?
I was being sarcastic... sheesh!
I'd say to keep your stances under the table, Joker, because you know I won't be cutting you or anyone else any slack on this topic. AFF is not supportive of a cure, and there's no other way to say it. I imagine WP and other sites might be, however. Those are the places to go if you want to bring up a science-fiction concept and keep your fingers crossed.
If you don't want a cure, then YOU don't want a cure. And I support your right to make that decision. That doesn't give you the right to shout over the top of people who think differently.
I was being sarcastic... sheesh!
Just a piece of advice Batman - if you're going to use sarcasm on the internet, you need to put a smiley face afterwards and just really make it obvious that it is sarcasm. Otherwise don't be surprised if you hurt people's feelings and they take it literally.
You're right and how about I amend my last response to Joker a little bit:
I was being "half sarcastic" in my last response to you Joker, as in, I feel very passionate about the "anti-cure" sentiment but at the same time you know me not to be a "rough enforcer" as the language used might indicate. Usually when my response seems exaggerated, there's a touch of sarcasm in it.
I'll have to work on using smiley faces from now on.
RE: the bolded print: I do the same exact thing. I often use words I do not fully understand. In that same vein, I don't understand what you mean by "learning words by the sort of patterns they make with other words." Could you explain that in another way?
So let's get one thing straight: if anyone tries to "cure" an Aspie against their will I'll be the first one waving my placard to stop it. The key words here are against their will.
But if an individual wants a cure, then I don't see what right some random strangers with whom they share nothing but (possibly) a diagnosis, have to get involved.
And if saying that makes me unpopular in Aspie circles, great. If the Aspie community automatically hates someone for daring to think through these decisions for themselves rather than toeing the party line, I don't want to be part of it anyway.
Nobody has to get involved. Apart from my personal words of distaste on the concept, the only thing I said was that AFF is not generally supportive of a cure. I didn't say AFF as a group is against individuals who want a cure--perhaps *I* feel this way a little, but I know such a sentiment is not written on the front page, nor should it be. You're right Ethel, it is up to the individual.