9:55pm June 16, 2015

the reason autism doesnt need a “cure”

chavisory:

autistichatchworth:

imagine an orange. now imagine everyone pointing at the orange and going “OMG!!!! THIS APPLE IS SICK!!!!! HOW DO WE FIX THIS BROKEN APPLE!!!!!!” the orange is not sick or broken. its just completely different than an apple. the problem is that everyone is trying to get the orange to be like every other apple. because that isnt going to happen. you dont need to fix the orange its perfectly find as an orange. you need to create a world thats fair to both apples and oranges

But also, the way people will then go “But gastrointestinal issues!  But epilepsy!  But major communication disabilities!  But meltdowns!”

Yes…apple trees are susceptible to certain ailments, and citrus trees are susceptible to certain other ailments, in addition to being more vulnerable to frost and other environmental factors.

That makes the solution to develop effective treatments for the issues that citrus trees are more vulnerable to than apple trees, not to eradicate citrus trees.

I made this tree analogy ages ago (including Oak Rot, I believe):

The Oak Manifesto

(I have more affinity with redwoods than oaks, but that’s not why I wrote this, so yeah.  And I do have a fair amount of affinity with oaks, as they grew very near where I grew up, lots of them.  Just more so with redwoods because that’s where I was when I was born, and that runs very deep.)

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