First off, let me say that I am not pro-cure. I am as opposed to them as any of you, mayhap even more. But from what I've seen so far, we've been demonizing them. None of them hate us. It is true, they occasionally mistreat us - but it is a thing done out of ignorance.
They are humans, like us (if in some ways different,) and they think they're doing something good. They think that our complaints are the products of ill minds. Instead of immediately tearing into anyone that says "I'm pro-cure," politely ask why they think that, deconstruct their beliefs, and rebuild them in our glorious image.
Do not let this escalate to a mindless war. Be polite, communicate (however hard that may be,) and show them that we are living, thinking beings, instead of one-sided zealots. Whilst there are some people who you cannot negotiate with, I am sure that a vast majority listen to common sense.
They are not evil - simply misguided. Show them the light, ja?
I disagree, kinda. The thing that has the most power to threaten our survival is the public. We live in a democracy (flawed piece a' crap,) and capitalism, to boot. In the end, it goes down to the great mass of NT populus.
Holding a flamewar with a group that is stronger than us will give them more motivation. We must build up - gain strength and numbers. We must make it unprofitable for them to continue with this path, and to do that we need to sway public opinion.
"What you're doing is wrong!" doesn't work as well as "You made a little mistake, but that's okay." Propaganda works very well too, if politeness fails, so instead of trying to stop theirs, we should make our own. Like the Autism Pride day.
I know, I'm sounding evil and cynical (at least I think I am) but I won't use doublespeak. I am not a crook.
Neither am I. In fact, I plan to become a drifter. Failing that, I'll start my own semi-nomadic(?) society. Imo, society has encountered a breed that does not match it. Rather than change for our sake, they would rather change us, causing much grief and suffering.
I always get my way; change is inevitable.
Indeed. Both France and America tried to change the largely Buddhist Vietnam (all those self-burning protests... maybe that is something we need to do), and look what happened. This is a pattern in history humanity needs to break away from.
*pictures what would happen if an Aspie walked into a NAAR rally and set himself ablaze, dying at their feet...*
Funny. I can recall seeing an image of a Buddhist Monk in Vietnam setting himself ablaze in protest of confinement of non-Catholics to concentration camps on an album cover nearly twenty years after the fact.
Well, to hear it from them, they were using it in order to go with their politically-motivated theme, but they are a long way from the only people to use the image in question. It also graces a few T-shirts sold to the protest movement and such. But the point is that extreme actions with clearly defined motives tend to stick around long after those who prompted them are forgotten.
To say that the civil rights movement brought about the changes it did simply because of Rosa Parks is sadly oversimplifying it. It is like the syringe issue in Australia. For years, people with diabetes were being made to pay for the syringes they needed to stay alive whilst drug addicts were being given freebies. Two organisations wrote numerous protests of the fact, and thousands of individual diabetics did the same, so to say that Australian diabetics get that part of their needs met for "free" because a government just made that choice is oversimplifying. The British government did not exactly give up India because of Ghandi, either. The cost of keeping the place was deemed by the British to be too much. Nothing is ever that simple, basically.
Yes, and a lot of other actions also got the ball rolling. The murder of a group of civil rights workers, for instance, galvanised the movement. One of the impediments to our goals is that the media has been so successful in making us look like a bunch of monsters that we literally cannot argue without receiving a ton of crap. We are being railroaded into the same camp as they put the schizophrenic in. That scares me.
I have actually encountered a few people who did not even know the word Asperger's until they heard it from Law & Order. So I would say that there is at least an element within the media looking to have us tarred and feathered.
Have you seen the two films Bryan Singer made of the X-Men comic books?
I am not against curing anything, as such. Being that I also have diabetes, I get very angry indeed when someone even tries to demonise something that might yield a cure such as cell cloning. But there is a saying that basically runs along the lines of sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. A cure for autism would make me more like my biological family, and the mere idea of that makes me very upset. My symptoms also remind me that in spite of attempts to convince me otherwise, I am the superior being.
As for autism being pervasive throughout all humanity, don't count on it. Were that the case, our world would be a lot different to how it is now.
Would it be possible to explain what you don't want cured?
Few, if any, people would object to treating cormibond conditions, or stuff like speech therapy.
However, "curing" autism would mean that changing thier behavior and thought process, to make them act like someone their not.
I have no comorbids. Every problem I am experiencing can be directly related to my autism. I still would not get rid of it. So there.