I might want to get married but.........

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I have heard that autistic people have to sterilized if they get married. I have many problems with this..........

-I want children

-I have had very serious reactions to anesthesia

-I am outright against forced sterilization

I live in Canada, is there any law that says I have to get sterilized if I get married? Because if I do, I am not getting married.

Have you been looking at some old U.S. eugenics laws? They don't do that now, not in the more civilised countries...

That's baloney, We do not need to get sterilized. Plenty of autistic people in Canada have gotten married and had kids.

Whoever told you that either has no clue about the laws or was trying to fool you. There is no such law in Canada, or in any other country I know of.

As an autistic person who wants children, you do have to be prepared for the possibility that your child will also be autistic; you have an increased risk (though increased by how much, we don't know). You need to know that you can find the resources to give an autistic child a good upbringing, in a safe place--just like you need to be prepared for the possibility that your child will be NT and you will need to bridge the gap between your thinking style and theirs in order to raise them properly.

But that is part of being a parent, in general. Nobody ever seems to be completely prepared; but knowing it will be a challenge and being willing to take it on is probably essential.

Sterilized? What are Autistics infected with life-threatening diseases or something? My dad's friend is married to an Aspie, and they have 5 kids, who are all NTs. He wasn't sterilized.

This isn't Nazi Germany. It's only up to you whether you want children. Just understand any implications of possibly passing something onto your children genetically.