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30 Jul 2008, 4:13 pm

It's not the fact that they support this test that irks me, what really gets me is how they refer to this test as a "cure", which is basically a nice way of saying that they think autistic people would be better off dead.



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30 Jul 2008, 9:23 pm

^Yeah well maybe we're assuming their meaning of "cure" because it could mean multiple things then we suspected. Sometimes words and even phrases have multiple means and we just sometimes don't think them out fully. I'm just being logical and rational here about that terminology.


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01 Aug 2008, 7:43 pm

Mage wrote:
I think it's better to give money to an autistic person so they can go out and buy some pie.


Or a CD of their choice. 8)


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01 Aug 2008, 7:44 pm

normally_impaired wrote:
It's not the fact that they support this test that irks me, what really gets me is how they refer to this test as a "cure", which is basically a nice way of saying that they think autistic people would be better off dead.


And that's why I hate them so much.


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02 Aug 2008, 10:53 am

^Like I said before everyone might be misinterpreting the whole Autism Speaks because everyone is rational and some things can have double means at times.


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02 Aug 2008, 11:12 am

Democracy means freedom of choice, enjoy your walk Jerry :D



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02 Aug 2008, 3:19 pm

^Thanks Argon. At least you understand my freedom of choice about this walk.


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