Do you think we should be allowed to mate?

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Let's suppose that this horrendous idea of "not allowing" people on the ASD spectrum is in force; we have all been forced at gunpoint to undergo sterilisation. The world is safe from us!

Oh but now neurotypical parents are bringing in children who are being diagnosed with autism! So we will have to sterilise these neurotypical parents, and these new ASD children, so the rest of the breeding population is safely normal now... oh but hang on, that didn't work!! So we will make all the fertiles left submit their DNA to big brother and only licence those whose chromosomes are not suspect to breed, and punish any dissenters severely, put down any children they have.

Oh, but for some unknown reason, a new generation of ASD children have appeared. Well we will bring them up in isolation as experimental objects until we stamp out this curse once and for all. All "right thinking" people know that this is a greater good and it is not cruel to do this, it is for the children's own good (of course). Isn't anything prefixed with "for their own good" automatically beneficial? Of course it is. Right. Let's start rounding them up. Trace their addresses through website interfaces, medical records, benefits, schools, psychiatrists. We will put them in concentration aka "holding" camps while we process them, and tattoo each one with a number to stop any confusion from occurring while we process them. We don't need any more Einsteins or Alan Turings, thank you very much, and as Autism Speaks knows, these people are just a disease inflicted on the proper human race. Any resistors may be shot on sight for the public good.

Oh but hold on now the gene pool is so uniform that we are getting inbreeding effects and a whole lot of children born with serious abnormalities and congenital deformities. So we will have to sterilise them too. Oh well, we thought that was the right thing to do at the time, how could we know it would lead to the extinction of the human race? We were only trying to help them... our motives were always good. And Suzanne Wright was honoured by Pope Francis, after all...

Very high probability autism runs in my genes. Guaranteed fact that stuttering is common in my family. Uncle and grandfather both had it. I still do and always will.

Having a child... I don't know if I could bear risking their life being like mine. Not to mention that I probably couldn't do most of the things parents are expected to.

Allowed by whom? That is the first question.

Society has no right to restrict this.

On Polish AS forum I read about two women who are married to men who probably are Aspies. They may appear to be concerned about condition which their husbands have. They have offspring, but I do not know if they have ASD symptoms or not.

"My mentality" does not want to have non-Aspie wife and non-Aspie child(ren). It looks wrong. Aspies tend to suffer because of reactions of others and their symptoms, such as sensory issues and serious social ineptitude. Aspies are interesting for me, NTs are "other" and less fascinating. Raising children with AS with an Aspijka as the wife may look pleasant, funny, interesting for me (I want to life in the home of my parents (current one))... It looks not serious for me and may be a proof of my irresponsibility, emotional imbalance etc. To be in family with "own" people, not with NTs who have significantly other mentality... I may have an idea of forming entire family of autistic people. Do you think that it would be something immoral and sinful?