Does it upset you when ill people reproduce?

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Not trying to argue with your feelings, but I often envy my kid for everything he has that wasn't available when I was young. Chewy tools. Adaptive PE. Understanding teachers. (This is luck, of course, from what I hear from my friends, plenty of Special Ed teachers suck.) I'm not saying his life isn't hard, but there are so many more resources now. When he comes home and tells me they did parachute play in PE, I just want to cry with happiness. When I was his age, I was already being picked last and yelled at constantly for my mistakes.

And of course, computers and the Internet make life so much better for many of us.

I guess my point is, your kids wouldn't necessarily go through what you did. They would have their own unique experiences.

Not at all relaistic because there simply isn't enough autistics in the worls to be able to reproduce enough children to outnumber NTs

OMG thats a joke

honestly speaking i never thought i would come across this question form a site like this that support people who are different. so i guess me having a genetic disorder very very very mild case of neurifibromatosis in my child have a 50 percent of chance of getting it, i bet since i want my own child one day i'm probably in awful person to you, or hell maybe my whole family should be sterilize since nf, mental retardation, depression autism macrophaly precious puberty
adhd add eye problems ect runs in my family. maybe our family don't derserve to grow because of a chance of a baby that don't fit society standers of who can live a happy life,
you know the one thing i hate the most is when i see people say someone is suffering when 99% of the time that person is happier then you. I 'm sad now good night.

Sorry I didn't read your full post when I responded. Only the first half of it.

It doesn't bother me. I'm a pretty happy person and I think I could raise a happy child, aspie or not. A loving household goes a long way.

Women having babies so they have someone there is worse. It's just the wrong reason to entirely. I mean buy a cat or build a robot.
Or to save a relationship.

The responses here disappoint me... I appreciate and agree with those who say it is a matter of responsibility and personal decisions that ultimately determine whether a couple should have children. But no one here is advocating eugenics, as some recents comments would seem to imply. Some conditions affect an individual; others have a much more pervasive influence. Having a child is their decision; my finding it cruel another thing entirely. I have a son on the spectrum, and would have him again in a heartbeat. Due to the combined risks for my wife and any potential children, we've decided not to have kids (plus it cuts into Playstation time)... again, a matter of choice. But given the specifics of my ex's situation, I find their decision appalling.


M.

I find it sickening when people who have AIDS choose to have kids. If they adopted, I would be find with it.

About people who have sicknesses you can't die from, I am indifferent to it.

What the f**k?
Why would people be that stupid? UGH.
And I'm not supporting eugenics. I was just wondering if anyone else gets angered by plainly ill people's decisions to pass on their genes.

I am sorry if I came off as mean, but I was born with a defective heart, scoliosis and juvenile diabetes so I get mad, I want to have a child and if you don't like that then please don't voice your opinions on me or anyone else. Just because I have these issues doesn't stop me from wanting a family. When you say anyone with defective genes shouldn't pass them on sounds like Eugenics to me, you should try to be more careful saying these things when there are others on this forum with all sorts of different congenital health issues.

Sorry, but for you to have children with the risk of passing on those ailments to your children is just selfish. It has nothing to do with eugenics, its just common sense.

Call me selfish if you like but my dad has diabetics, my grandfather had it, my mom's cousin son has it. I also have scoliosis but it's very mild it doesn't effect me so the doctors consider it normal. ADHD and communication problems, and learning difficulties also run in my family and depression and color blindness. Aspies traits also run in my family and I have an aunt with schizophrenia and my mom has arthritis. I still want to have kids.

All the outcome studies of individuals with AS say otherwise, and it's a lifelong condition. Anyway, who's to define what's a normal life (what, like how the majority live? There's nothing special about that way of life)? The happiest individual I've known has Down's with severe mental retardation. Most women would probably have had him put down. I admire him.

ASDs are genetic.

I have a child, and I'm an Aspie. Sure, when I was a kid, I took a of of crap; but I sincerely believe special education, with its emphasis on inclusion into the larger student body, is better than what we had growing up. My daughter will have a better childhood than I did.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

I don't think you should either, to many people like you around, What should I do do hang myself because I am not good enough
to have children, what gives you the right to talk to me that. its eugenics your forcing on me your no better then a nazi!