Aspies For Freedom

I have noticed most Autistics to be curious about something, or even about everything.

I have noticed many Autistics to want to know WHY? about something and won't stop until we find out that reason.

Many are curious about science.

Many are curious also about what/who we are and how we became that way.  Just to know.

Yet we have to work against the funding of research into the genetic causes of Autism,  because this research will very probably be used to abort children who could turn out autistic.

It seems really sad to me that this is the case.

I am not personally a scientific person, but nonetheless it seems to me that we of all people ought to be able to support scientific curiosity... without fearing for our own life-quality or for the lives of other people.

I'm honestly not too concerned that any successful prenatal test will be developed.

You'll almost certainly see idiot NTs aborting many more NTs (by accident) than autistic children.  At which point, the tests on the dead fetuses will reveal it, and eventually the fad will die out.

Just not much keen to argue the point.

An I am curious about the gentics of it all.

Though not so much as the neurology.

I let BU take my blood any rate.  They're investigating AS and I hardly think that they're trying to eliminate that.

I didn't read all the links yet, but here is an interesting blog post:

http://www.autismvox.com/prenatal-geneti...spectives/

I kind of really still do agree with the idea that to want to know (just to know) if you are having an autistic kid is not wrong.  

I think that being able to prepare could be good.  I don't think this test is necessary, but... I think it could give open-minded (but starting-out-ignorant) NT parents the time they would need to adapt to the idea of having a "different" child, and learn about autism... a sort of "early intervention" for the parents, maybe.  It could prevent a lot of later problems and falling into traps of "help! what do i do now - let's hire the best quacks" sort of thing, if they could be educated about the full meaning of autism early on.

I mean, tests revealing gender are still done, while in some cultures male offspring are more desired and so there is a common practice of aborting female babies.
If you go to find out your baby's sex so you know what color to paint the nursery ahead of time (yeah, I watch too much DIY tv), that is kinda weird, but not morally wrong.

Let me put it this way.  I am 100% against using this test for selective (or any other kind of) abortion.  But if I ever get pregnant, I might let them do the test, if it were anything like accurate.  Just because, with something big, I really like to know what's going on ahead of time.

Of course, you can't know everything.
But to know a little of what to expect, I think would be useful... I really do.

Not only for those of us who are disturbed by change as an autistic trait, but for any parents, Autistics or NTs, who also really just need a little extra time to adapt to their future.