I don't want to keep sounding negative. I was online and did online one on one chats with the owner of Aspies For Freedom prior to Autistic Pride day. I have been against some of it since day #1. They don't like to hear that. Firstly they claim to be about human rights but then seek to evade treatment rights in the form of cure. All a cure means is for adverse symptoms and still yet a diversity should still exist. I am also very much against making a big deal out of the disease terminology because it's really not that big of a deal. It also differs drastically from being gay which they compare autism and it differs because of "functionalism" and they hate that word functionalism. Then society is entirely at blame for that because of how it is constructed. Also I am against being so very confrontational and teaching people that silly words are akin to grave injustices.
I do not really grasp the reason why pride is important other then being content in oneself. I have no insecurity with knowing I have a disability and don't tend to focus on that. While it's perfectly ok for people to believe what they want if the premise of pride awareness is to like it has attempted to do which is evade the human rights of others for treatment advancements especially for something that has nothing to do with sexuality but about human functionalism they are doing a great disservice. Teaching an individual to be resilient differs.
Individuals have the human right to have a disability be considered a disability in the realm of pathology and have the dignity to also be respected in that. Being bullied by being called a curebee and confronting treatment human rights was the down fall to extreme pride. Pride however might re-invent itself but pride in a disability itself is to me wrong-headed and by calling people a disorder your essentially emotionally asking people to be emotionally effected by disorder awareness. I think it's both manipulative and potentially constructive but yet there are better ways to build good self-esteem in peoples lives then forcing a differing perspective or else people are bigots while evading treatment research dollars with their PR game for those who want treatment advancements.
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The peer politics creating intolerance toward compassion is coming to an end. Pity accusations, indifferent advocacy against isolation awareness and for pride in an image of autism is injustice.
http://www.autismselfadvocacynetwork.com
16 Jun 2011, 2:03 am
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