Do you think autism needs to be cured
First, Jewish people do not choose to be Jewish, it's an ethnicity as well as a religion. Second, I meant that the way the question is phrased sounds it looks like a cure would be forced. Finally, as I said before I believe researching a cure is a waste of resources.
Why don't you stop trivializing the atrocities that actually occurred to those who are Jewish to bolster your nonsense. Face it, cure is going to eventually come, as the resources will continue to be allocated to it. You will put up with it. Don't waste your time going against progress.
I'm not trivializing it, Hitler was killing the mentally disabled before he moved onto Jews, death was the "cure" and I believe it shall remain the only one. We cannot expect to be able to change a person's history by popping pills when we could be doing more to help the people who are already alive.
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Well if curing it means infanticide, then no. However, if curing it means making it more manageable to live and function with, then, why not? In my case, it's NVLD, so it is a defect, with NVLD your right brain hemisphere is screwed up, so the left brain compensates for the right one being crappy. It for all intensive purposes "looks" like Aspergers/autism, but it's a different cause. So, I don't know, due to my NVLD, my verbal IQ is like 130+ but then my nonverbal is like 80. I wonder how great life would be if I could have a 130 nonverbal IQ, too. But, I don't know if I'd trade it for 100-110 on both sides, that might just be lame. Who knows.
I'm not trivializing it, Hitler was killing the mentally disabled before he moved onto Jews, death was the "cure" and I believe it shall remain the only one. We cannot expect to be able to change a person's history by popping pills when we could be doing more to help the people who are already alive.
It doesn't matter what you believe as you won't even acknowledge the concept of cure. Popping pills? What does that have to do with this? You are talking with extreme ignorance. You want the ones who are actually disabled to be completely dependent on others and therefore submissive to them. There's nothing else you could mean by help.
Well fixing anxiety doesn't fix the social awkwardness. You're still gonna be awkward, just not care.
I'm not trivializing it, Hitler was killing the mentally disabled before he moved onto Jews, death was the "cure" and I believe it shall remain the only one. We cannot expect to be able to change a person's history by popping pills when we could be doing more to help the people who are already alive.
It doesn't matter what you believe as you won't even acknowledge the concept of cure. Popping pills? What does that have to do with this? You are talking with extreme ignorance. You want the ones who are actually disabled to be completely dependent on others and therefore submissive to them. There's nothing else you could mean by help.
How thick are you? I did not say I wanted does with severe autism to remain disabled. What I said was I disliked the way the question was worded, as opposed to "should a cure for autism be made available" or something, and that I believe a cure will never be found. We have not cured ADHD, we have not cured schizophrenia, only provided treatment. We have not cured any form of mental retardation. I say it would probably be easier to bring a brain dead person back to life than it would be to cure autism. By help I mean services such as teaching live skills and the like, making adaptions in the work place and the like. Trying to find a panacea is trying to take the lazy way out of your problems.
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Don't mince words with me. It's obvious what you mean. You're an ignorant child. You don't know much of the possibilities of medicine/technology. Teaching doesn't work when someone's brain is malfunctioning. Adaptations don't do squat. Lazy way? You don't know what work goes into promoting a cure. I don't like that you are saying upsetting things.
That's quite enough, the both of you. Just stop now please.
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I was thinking of my own experience. I suppose I wasn't being considerate of other's feelings, provided that I hadn't stepped on their toes or violated social protocol.
I don't plot, and I do think you need to consider others' opinions rather than reacting so emotionally. Maybe you'll learn something. I have no control over whether a cure is found. If someone wants to be cured, I hope they can be. I'm only stating that there are positives to autism. It's where they come up against society's idea of "normal" and how important it is that a lot of the problems arise.
I have to admit, I myself basically envy others for having competence I don't have, and I loathe my impairments, no matter what others do or don't do. I don't like the idea of shedding my emotions so I can fit the austere and sad mold I'm being encouraged to deal with. There is no society's idea of normal. If you have no chance to undermine the search for a cure, why do many like you spend time complaining of it?
I wouldn't categorize anything I've said here as a complaint. The complaint is against autism, and the OP is suggesting a cure, though not giving detail as to what that cure would entail.
I don't recall my words exactly, but I had a problem with the idea of a cure because it's not usually spoken of as a choice, but as a form of prevention - preventing people with autism from being born to begin with - rather than as a cure one with autism could choose to take or not take.
I suggested that we should take into consideration that there have been great minds, people who've changed the world, who had autism, and it's possible it was their autism that allowed them to think in the different ways that made them great. (This is true of mental illnesses as well - Vincent van Gogh is believed to have been schizophrenic, and yet was one of the greatest painters who ever lived. But his mental illness was "unacceptable" to people, and therefore to him as well, so that he ended his own life.)
My point is that high-functioning autism results in as many strengths as weaknesses, and those strengths need to be explored and appreciated, not shuffled away with all the problems as abnormal and unacceptable.
Even an NT person tends to be much happier if they can learn to appreciate their strengths rather than abhor their weaknesses, and this isn't just me saying this but is also written of in a book titled Authentic Happiness, written by a former president of the American Psychological Association, Martin Seligman.
I find it unlikely, considering the many mental disorders that have no cure, only treatments, that there will ever be a cure that someone with autism can choose. If one ever comes about, great! However, the idea of using eugenics to choose who will be born based on whether they might have autism is abhorrent to me.
Cure doesn't have anything to do with preventing someone from being born. Only opponents of cure are making that up and screaming eugenics.
Who is getting the strengths? Who is getting the weaknesses? There's no even distribution of the burden. It's called a spectrum for a reason.
Cure doesn't have anything to do with preventing someone from being born. Only opponents of cure are making that up and screaming eugenics.
Who is getting the strengths? Who is getting the weaknesses? There's no even distribution of the burden. It's called a spectrum for a reason.
dalurker, there's no guarantee that anyone will do "well" in life, whether they have some form of autism or some other limitation, or not. There are many people with no disability whatsoever who don't do "well" in life, either by their own reckoning or by someone else's, and the causes are legion. You might want to look up that book I mentioned on happiness. I'm quite sure that everyone has strengths, or something they love to do. But it's up to each person to identify their own.
In any case, I'm finished with this thread. I find your reactions to me and to several other people here quite harsh, and you seem unwilling to acknowledge that anyone else might have a valid opinion, or that anything they say might be acceptable to you. Simply telling people they're wrong isn't discussion. I think you want to argue. Fine, but it won't be with me any longer. I hope the OP got what they wanted from asking the question. Bowing out.
Cure doesn't have anything to do with preventing someone from being born. Only opponents of cure are making that up and screaming eugenics.
Who is getting the strengths? Who is getting the weaknesses? There's no even distribution of the burden. It's called a spectrum for a reason.
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