Do you want a cure for Asperger?

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LordoftheMonkeys
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09 Jan 2011, 4:43 pm

Biokinetica wrote:

LordoftheMonkeys wrote:

If there is a medication that cures AS, then I will have a social obligation to take it. So basically I have a choice between either losing the core of what makes me me, or being shunned and scorned by society. I do not wish for a cure for asperger's syndrome any more than I want a cure for homosexuality.

Why is that? Because a portion of society doesn't understand you? That's akin to the arguments for curing homosexuality.

I'm sorry, I don't really understand this post. Are you objecting to what I said, or are you agreeing with my statement that what I am predicting would be an injustice? What I meant to say was that if there is a cure for autism, then if I don't seek a cure, people will see it as being my fault, and I will no longer have the help I need. I will have to either sacrifice who I am or live a life of misery.

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09 Jan 2011, 8:42 pm

What I don't get is the "social obligation". I don't see this obligation. You seem to agree that it's just as abhorrent curing homosexuality, but it doesn't sound that way when you say "social obligation".

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