Right_Honourable_Weyoun wrote:
These people you mention, while they may have contributed great things to Human civilisation, are still outliers. In addition, most of them are only speculated to have ASD's. Anyways, it is an absurd argument to say that just because these people are not born, that what they invent would never be invented by anyone else. The suffering that autism inflicts on Humanity is NOT worth these people's contributions to the world.
WOW, what a total pile of biggoted, ignorant BS!
Right_honurable_weyoun, I am appalled by the fact that you have accused those here of not doing the research when what you suggest IS accually simmilar to what Hitler attemped to do. Hans Asperger, the namesake of our fine condition, prottected many young geniuses from the fate inwhich you suggest here that we sucumb to. Perhaps you get your jollies trolling. Perhaps you have other issues that make you think you can cast judgement on the Autism community. I may "suffer" from AS, but if a "cure" were placed in my lap tommrow, I'd not have it.
It is because we never have thought inside the box that our "kind" that you'd have made sterile, are able to do the things we do with our great minds. Most of us are not distracted by the same things that plague the NTs. We are focused. Because we are "outliers" we are able to put our minds beyond the incapaciting social structures and achieve more in one moment of unaldulterated thought than some NTs achieve in a year.
WE are the future of the human race.
We are clearly clever enough to see the diagnositc elements and compare them to who and what we are (or arent) and make an educated conclusion. If we are all speculated, then why assume that sterilizing us to "clense" the gene pool will have any effect?
Tell ya what, you want to "clense the gene pool", super idea, YOU FIRST.