Aspies For Freedom

The people in the United States who have organised the "Autism Awareness" day in April are members of the neurotypical curebie establishment. Therefore these people are the ideological enemies of autistic rights movement groups such as the Aspies For Freedom. The annual "day" organised by the AFF is Autistic Pride Day on June 18th
http://www.aspiesforfreedom.org/autisticprideday/

If Eric wants to be accepted as a member of the autistic rights and autistic pride movement, I suggest that he help to publicise the June 18th day and not publicise the April awareness day, and I also suggest that Eric do some study about the well-established world-wide autistic rights movement which I hope will put an end to his political naivety.

I found this web site very interesting and worthwhile, but I did spot two spelling errors in the text at the beginning.
http://iautistic.com/zong.php

Maybe there is one in Singapore, but if so, I agree with you that it's certainly going to be run by curebies.  I can't imagine why any self-respecting autistic person would want to promote it.

And whenever I see an aspie describe himself as "successfully entering the human world" or being able to "reach out to normal people," it just makes me want to grit my teeth in disgust.  Does he think an alien stork brought him, or what?  Now that there's so much social concern about showing respect for diversity, it would not be acceptable to describe a member of any other minority group as not fully human or not one of the normal people.

It mystifies me why some aspies think so little of themselves that they see nothing wrong with being treated as subhuman.  It's truly pathetic.

I won't be linking to Eric Chen.

I know similar language has been used by other aspies, but this metaphor is a lot more dangerous than it looks at first glance.  Curebies mean it seriously when they say that an autistic child is not part of the human world unless he has been treated with ABA, chelation, etc., and has become indistinguishable from his peers.  No matter how dangerous, painful, and unfounded a treatment may be, its consequences are viewed as better than being autistic.  Children are literally dying as a result of this metaphor.  Adult autistics are being denied jobs.  Et cetera.

Perhaps Eric Chen does not mean to suggest that he was subhuman before he learned how to behave according to social expectations, but I assure you, there are many curebies who will interpret it that way and who will believe it.

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Anybody whose goal is to function like a non-autistic most of the time is a curebie in my book, whether or not he uses the word "cure."  That is nothing but an expression of self-hatred.

Imagine if a woman wrote, "I am not cured of femaleness, but just adapted so well that I am able to function much like a man most of the time."

But we all need to do this just to survive.  Try passing a job interview acting like your Aspie self. [/quote]

For many years, women had to act like men to get jobs, blacks had to act like whites, etc., but that didn't mean it was either right or inevitable.  The "cure" was anti-discrimination laws, not counseling on how to "adapt" to a white man's world.

It would depend what the job was for, surely.