A lot of people have used X-men as a dramatic analogy of what is really happening. A quote from the first film that comes to mind:
"but honey, this mutant problem is...."
"what mutant problem?"
replace mutant with autism
Someone suggested that autistics against a cure was the inspiration for the theme of the latest film.
Technically we are all mutants - autism is genetic
But then, the whole of mankind is a pile of mutant monkeys so bla
Someone suggested that autistics against a cure was the inspiration for the theme of the latest film.
Racism has always been the main theme behind x-men, in fact it can be used as a good analogy for many social predjudices.
Racists are not looking for a cure, thats a different issue. The cure theme is specific. Are there any other people on the planet, right now, fighting a cure?
Homosexuality.
Where in the world are people developing a cure for homosexuality?
CHN?
But they arent researching a cure through official bodies and using millions of dollars on that research and promoting themselves.
Anyone could sit at home and pretend to make a cure, but the global presence of cure autism groups is very dominant.
I'd say it was ironic how the normal folks seem hell bent on wiping out the mutants in real lfie, when they love things like X-men.
...but, X-men has always been most loved by the oddballs of society so it doesn't work as an arguement ;p
Ther are cure gayness camps in Tennessee, where I live. Some people I knew were trying to get one of them shut down, I remember. I've no idea if it worked or not. There was also a lawsuit over a girl who happened to come from a pagan family. She wasn't participating in school-sponsored trips to tent revivals, so the other kids attacked and harrased her to no end. Her family found out later than the kids' parents had been giving them money to do those things, too. She moved here, and starting going to the same school I ended coming to a year before she left the country. I knew her when she got the judgment in her family's favor. Now they can't bus kids to religious events, so instead the bastards burn her in effigy.
Also--Yes, there are flat Earth creationists here; there are a million other kinds as well, all of which claim to interpret the bible "100% literally." Including the parts that contradict each other, I assume. That said, I have to give some grudging respect to the flat-earth guys, because they seem to be the only ones who've actually read the damn thing, as opposed the guys who apparently got bored flipping through the illustrated edition and turned on Jimmy Falwell instead.
It's a real big problem in this state.
Anyone could sit at home and pretend to make a cure, but the global presence of cure autism groups is very dominant.
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 what I was thinking was this scenario <artistic license> Man needs to write new screenplay for x-men, he picks up his newspaper and sees the headline "Please dont cure us autistics are pleading" (real headline from over a year ago) and thinks hmmm genetically different people dont want a cure.....
The person who mentioned that we might be inspiration saw clips of the film, I have not seen any clips.
Edit: actual headline and date
December 20, 2004
How About Not 'Curing' Us, Some Autistics Are Pleading
By AMY HARMON in the New York Times
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?
We haven't got the third movie here in Australia yet, but I've seen the first two. I'd love to be able to teleport like Nightcrawler. Awesome!
Alison
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?
We haven't got the third movie here in Australia yet, but I've seen the first two. I'd love to be able to teleport like Nightcrawler. Awesome!
Alison
the third movie makes its us debut next weekend, so i doubt it's out anywhere.
The supspecies thing makes sense with Aspies more than with "race" given the tendancy from what I can see for Aspies to attract each other far more readily than they seam to attract NT's which is more sub species like, of course this is not a completely divided subspecies as NT-Aspie relationships are still relativly common, although should that begin to change and Aspies become completely or almost completely engaged in relationships with other Aspies could be interesting to see the results in a good few thousand years.
Bearing in mind subspecies can over time evolve to become a new species entriely if the genepools diversify sufficiantly to render inter-breeding inneffective, of course that would create not only a new species but a planet with a co-sentient once again, just this time a 2 co-sentients with much more similar mental ability.