Verdandi wrote:
nostromo wrote:
ci wrote:
No one here has induced that the disability aspects of autism may be cured but there may be a significant difference that is seemingly innate which still may be intact to signify a diversity still existing when hardship is removed.
Exactly. This annoys me, cure opponents say or imply these things cannot be seperated. How do they think they can possibly KNOW that as if its gospel?!?! And if they can be seperated..then who wouldnt want that?
What gives you reason to believe they
can?
Nothing gives me reason to believe they can - other than that nothing gives me reason to believe they can't.
Verdandi wrote:
I don't believe a literal cure is possible in the near future (and I think claiming that cure just means "treatment" is so much semantic nonsense), so this discussion is only relevant in how much money goes into research to run down metaphorical blind alleys while more and more autistic children become autistic adults and have very little - if any - support.
Going down blind alleys does tell you something, it tells you theres nothing at the end of them, and that's knowledge you've gained that you couldn't have got until you went down them.
Verdandi wrote:
To heck with it - society's broken, not me. I don't care if anyone else wants a cure or not. But it certainly would be nice if there were more accommodations. I shouldn't have to change my neurology to be a part of society (and, really, I don't have to, but my ability to participate is pretty limited).
That would be nice.