Autism speaks is wrong, you can't cure whats not messed up.

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Aghogday, looks like you were right about the numbers. Good detective work! Also thank you for posting citations. A lot of folks around here don't do that and it's very frustrating.

I will have to admit that it appears that dalurker is not acknowledging mine nor anyone else's opinion and thus I don't think it's a good idea to continue attempting to argue with him. It's not about your problems nor mine, but rather everyone as a whole, so we ought to stop focusing just on ourselves and view the big picture (like I'm trying to...). If we're saying we've got autism then we inherently have some set of problems, regardless of severity, so fixating on our own problems isn't going to do anything to move this conversation forward.

I will reiterate my previous point, in that I feel that most people don't understand two things about autism and that is that it is something that is the wiring of the mind, and that there is a scale of severity (the spectrum bit).

It's not very well shown in media and thus people do not understand that there's people like me and people that have a lot more difficulties than me, and people who have a lot less. In addition, since it is not educated very well that the disorder is neurological that people don't understand that it's not like shoving Ritalin or Adderall in some kid's mouth for ADHD (which isn't a perfect fix either!). If people understood that this is how we are fundamentally hard-wired they might be less willing to try to find something that changes that. More education on the scaling factor of it would also reduce the number of parents who over-enable their children or feel they are incapable of doing things because of their disorder but really are fully capable.

The lack of education on the matter in general scares parents, and that fear alone is enough to cause them to want to abort their children because of this reason alone. That's a pretty scary reason to abort a baby, especially since I'd be screened as positive but I'm "high-functioning" so to speak (as are many other individuals). Heck, I don't think anyone here would rather not exist as an alternative to having autism. One can't really blame an organization for this, especially since they (from my knowledge) do not condone this practice; however, in my opinion the media is not doing a good enough job in educating the masses on the entire spectrum as opposed to the more worse sides of it, ESPECIALLY the disorder's portrayal in television and movies.

Of course, this is not to say that some people have it much worse than others, of course they do and that's the spectrum bit of it. But it isn't fair to just blanket the term and that's what the biggest problem with its portrayal is.

This is one of the reasons why people don't want Aspergers linked in willy nilly with everything else in the autistic spectrum. Apies are arguably just differently wired, while people with Rett's and Fragile X and other conditions are either mis wired or suffer from kind of degenerative condition.

maybe were like the mutants in xmen. We the mutants see nothing wrong. but society wants us cured since were different.