Aspies For Freedom

I know this might be old news; and I'm not really a golf expert, but at I know who Tiger Woods is. Anyway, this golfer made me very angry and he'll probably us angry too...

Although there isn't a 'cure' for Autism or Asperger's, (some) parents are willing to take the risks of getting their Autistic child 'cured', hoping that they'll live a happy and 'normal' life in this place that we call Earth. I don't believe in these 'cures'; I don't believe it'll make the pain go away... However there are doctors who say that there's a 'cure'.

Sorry about the links... I'm extremely pssed off of ways of getting 'cures'.

What are your views on this?

That's all

P.S: The last time I asked a question like this was not a while ago. I didn't tell anyone on Y!A that I have Asperger's.

I think the ways the curbies try and derail any public conversation about the real challenges that face autistics and the need for tolerance, understanding and acceptance in wider society - that irritates me, because they have invented a strawman and try and prop him up in a barren field where neurodiversity should grow and flourish.

holy crap both those newspapers are english!

although one of them is the sun they print a lot of crap as it is

best thing to do is compile a list of negative things about them then send it to ITV news as they mainly have a positive attitude towards autism

the sun gets into enough trouble as it is printing bullshit like this.

and the other was the Daily Fail.

lol

I don't think anyone is realistically expecting a cure within 50 years--especcially for adults.

I still don't understand how anyone who knows anything about the condition can reasonable believe a true autism cure exists. It's neurological, and best we can tell, partial, if not wholly genetic. The only cure that could work for something genetic is some sort of gene therapy, or more likely, given the complexity, a retro virus. We are at least 50 years from that technology. By that time, the autistic rights community will be out there enough that cure won't be an option, unless someone wants it. The point will be kinda moot.

My real fear from the curebies right now is the genetic research. It pains me to say this, too, because I really, really want to know what makes us tick. The problem is, once they know what the genes are, they're going to start prenatal testing. So, I think in reality, we are not fighting a cure, as one doesn't exist, but the possibility of eugenics.
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Eugenics should've died with the Nazis (and yes, I know that I'm now proving Godwin's law correct, but am too tired to care).  It didn't.  It's just like when Scientology "discontinued" their "fair game" policy.  It was never stopped; they simply dropped the title, and the same thing happened with eugenics.

Alaras,
  Godwin's Law doesn't apply here; your comparison with Nazi eugenics is legitimate, *not* gratuitous.  

  -BobB