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9:07pm May 29, 2012

➸ Lost in my Mind TARDIS: Are there any autistic people who approve of the movement to "find a cure?"

teaandtheatre:

nephilimswansong:

teaandtheatre:

dionthesocialist:

Because I’ve never met one, so why do people keep acting like it needs to be cured if all autistic people are like, “hey, don’t do that.”

There’s about 3 or 4 per 10-15 of us and they claim that they’re the…

I’ve met plenty of both. I wouldn’t know what ratio they exist in. But I do know that a lot of the time the places one group hangs out are different from the other (or each place seems to have different ratios, so it’s more complicated than that), so they develop an idea that wherever they hang out is how it always is everywhere.

And yeah both groups often have wildly different ideas about what autism is. (People who want a cure tend to separate it out so all negative autistic traits are autism and the rest are just who they are.)

Notes:
  1. spineless-laugh reblogged this from lilyayurievna and added:
    I somehow don’t really see how we’re anywhere close to a “cure” now. Autism isn’t some kind of fault in your brain, it’s...
  2. witchyautisticweirdo reblogged this from autistic-mom and added:
    Oh, you again. No one said you have to like being autistic. Sometimes I don’t even like it. That doesn’t mean that I...
  3. sunriseovervenus reblogged this from autistic-mom and added:
    keeping autistic people silent I’m loving your wording on that. IRONY.
  4. sopes reblogged this from fromonesurvivortoanother
  5. octoburfrost reblogged this from space-gecko-sex and added:
    There is? I’ve never run into anyone who was. Ian and I were having a discussion about having a cure available last...
  6. bpdjasper reblogged this from space-gecko-sex
  7. fromonesurvivortoanother reblogged this from autistic-mom
  8. a-spoon-is-born reblogged this from hashtagdion and added:
    because we interfere with their money machine. Lotta folk have a financial stake in keeping autistic people silent.
  9. katielongbottom reblogged this from hashtagdion and added:
    because no one and i mean NO ONE knows what a group of people needs better than someone who is more privileged than the...
  10. thepersonalispolitic reblogged this from hashtagdion
  11. revenantirreverence said: So many of us aren’t even verbal, nevermind “articulate”, so it’s rare that anyone even considers that we HAVE an opinion. The few that meet the criteria of “vocal enough” aren’t considered severe cases worthy of understanding/commenting.
  12. hashtagdion posted this