DVCal wrote:
When I say defective, I am thinking of it in the same way as being born with a congenital disorder, such blindness, deafness, or down syndrome. I can understand if people do not want to think of these as defects, but they are not positive or normal either.
I will agree ASD is not the norm although if rates of ASDs were to climb at the current pace ASD would be normal within a generation or two.
As for not positive, that is a different story. Who are you to say that someone is not positively impacted by their genetic anomaly? Be it blindness, lack of hearing, down syndrome etc. there are positives and negatives to pretty much everything, even if you don't see them.
There are plenty of NT people who don't like who they are, they are too fat, too skinny, too black, too white, breasts are too small/large, small dick, big ass, no ass etc.
All of these are outside the 'norm' most are at least partly genetically inherited.