Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Gender: Female Posts: 13,689 Location: Northern California
27 Feb 2008, 6:06 pm
The amount of ignorance in the world is amazing. No one has kidnapped my son. He is who he is and I consider his condition to be a gift. One with some burdens attached, yes, but still a gift.
_________________ Mom to an amazing young adult AS son, plus an also amazing non-AS daughter. Most likely part of the "Broader Autism Phenotype" (some traits).
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Age: 69 Gender: Female Posts: 6,313 Location: The Castle of Shock and Awe-tism
27 Feb 2008, 6:31 pm
Ransom a post topic
Asperger's and I are old friends. I live on the Spectrum. It is a comfort zone to me. Those notes were written by Neuro Tyrants ranting about that wich they do not understand.
I just noticed this topic, so I guess I have come in at the tail end, and the problem has been, to all intents and purposes, rectified.
I had better go for now. My skin feels as though it is crawling. NTicks, no doubt!
I am not held random, and I am not a disease. That's very old-school thinking, and I don't like that. I think that the people who made that stupid ad up, are held ransom, by stupidity. I also do not wish to be cured, because I'm not a shell. Those people like to make us out, to be handicapped weaklings. I hope that those ads are all torn down, and burned. That makes me very angry.
Joined: 7 May 2006 Age: 53 Gender: Female Posts: 128 Location: Chicago
27 Feb 2008, 9:15 pm
The NYU Child Study Center hosted an online town hall yesterday about the ads. I read the whole transcript. Basically they were unapologetic. Apparently the increased "awareness" justified the fear-mongering to them. Their position is that if the world doesn't see autism as a scary, horrible disease, then people won't want to help autistic people.
The NYU Child Study Center hosted an online town hall yesterday about the ads. I read the whole transcript. Basically they were unapologetic. Apparently the increased "awareness" justified the fear-mongering to them. Their position is that if the world doesn't see autism as a scary, horrible disease, then people won't want to help autistic people.
I'm not diseased, and I don't need no bloody help.