Aspies For Freedom

That new X-men movie. It's kinda funny. Humans finding cures for those different...

Unintentional, surely, but still.

"They say that they wish to cure us, I say we are the cure."

X-aspies, assemble!  :lol:

Racism has always been the main theme behind x-men, in fact it can be used as a good analogy for many social predjudices.

Homosexuality.

Some people are still trying to "cure" the gender-identities of transgender persons. How can you cure someone's identity?  :shock:
I believe transsexuality is also sometimes caused by a mutation, but it might only exist in the brain. Or do you think it's caused by bad parenting?  
Yeah, just like homosexuality and autism is caused by refridgerator mothers and absent fathers and whatnot.  :roll:

I think it should be LGBTAA* instead of LGBT... Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Asexual Autistic and so on...

I believe there are many groups, mostly Christian fanatics, who are trying to cure homosexuality on these camps where they use all sorts of questionable techniques. Who knows what kind of torture they are putting people through!  :? Now that's in USA where some people still think the earth is flat.

That's true, Amy. And the LGBT community has a lot of power these days, at least when compared to the autistic community. Together we shall rule the galaxy! Mwhahahaa!!!  :twisted: Sorry, too much chocolate.  :oops:

Thats exactly why I doubt autism was an inspiration for this movie. The Curbie groups are so powerful they are essentially unquestioned, autism being something worth defending doesn't even come into most peoples minds.

Well, the X-men movies are based on the comics of the same title and those comics have had the same 'cure' chasing and whatnot going on for years, I think. Btw, Bryan Singer, the writer of the first X-men movie is gay and so is Sir Ian Mckellen who plays Magneto in all three movies. I don't know if there are any actors on the spectrum playing mutants, though.   :?  :grin:

It's likely more of a prophetic relation than actually inspired by the whole cure thing. I just wish it were closer to truth-who doesn't want wings?

Humans ARE a force of nature  :roll:

Balance?

What balance?

Nature is chaos, a constant war of organisms and forces. It is the artifical that is ordered.

Humanity fits in just fine.

According to my freshman biology (four years ago, whoo, memories!) a mutant is the first individual of any genetic line to have a specific mutation.  Most of us have inherited our AS from one or both parents, and it seems to me that the jury is still out on whether the majority of material is dominant or recessive.  So it would not be possible to determine with a great enough degree of accuracy unless AS traits were expressed in one or both parents.  

The idea of humans or what humans do as being anything other than natural is a religious idea for you to believe or disbelieve as you wish.  To me, a house with electricity and running water is no less natural than a beaver dam.  

Nature doesn't fight anything, because taken as a whole, it is insensible.  Increasing global temperatures results in a more energetic interaction of forces, thus greater storms because of global warming.  The existence of groups like us is not a punishment against the NT population, but a reaction to the pathologization of a collection of differences that have already existed for a great deal of human history.  There is now a perception that it would better if we were all dead or had never been born, or at least that we should be forced to change.  It is inevitable that there would be people who wouldn't want that.  Society always has a conservatizing element in it, that will fight any sort of change, hence the war between the mutants and the normals in X-men.  Hence the pro-cure groups.  Hence the millions of African Americans who went to jail for protesting discrimination.  

You can call it a fight or a punishment if you want to, but such thinking is divisive and unnecessary, and probably counter-productive.  I don't want to hurt anyone, I just want to survive.  I would remind everyone that we would lose a war with the Neurotypicals because we don't have the numbers.  No divine ordination will help us, whether from some blonde-hair, blue-eyed Jesus, or some verdant great earth mother.  We would lose.  

We are not a disease, we are not a cure.  We are human beings who have the same rights as everybody else, and we need to stand up and demand these rights be respected PEACEFULLY or it will never happen.

Nah, that's more a Tzeentch kinda thing. I'm more of a Khorne guy  :roll: