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4:38pm June 22, 2014

angryress:

im autistic and i would rather not be. there. i said it. i dont feel proud of my mental state and my autism makes things difficult at times. it isnt a trait, it isnt my personality, it’s a roadblock that just makes my other mental disorders worse. stop glorifying it and acting like people are so bad for wanting to cure it. it isnt always good. the bad far outweighs any good the disorder brings. shut up

People keep saying there’s no such thing as an autistic person who wants to be cured.  I’m reblogging this so that people understand I’m serious when I say that yes there are lots of autistic people who want to be cured.  I personally don’t want to be cured (please do not read anything into this about how difficult autism makes things for me, it makes things plenty difficult), but I’d never deny that lots of people do want to be cured, for all kinds of reasons.  And generally when people say, on here, that they want to be cured, people run them off really fast.  And then they totally forget the person ever existed, when they say “oh yeah there’s no autistic people who want to be cured”, even though just last week they may have been flaming an autistic person for nothing more than wanting to be cured.

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  1. deyrbnogardi reblogged this from imma-monster-now
  2. imma-monster-now reblogged this from interhoarse
  3. interhoarse reblogged this from angryress
  4. angryress reblogged this from countesclarmonde
  5. countesclarmonde reblogged this from angryress and added:
    Excellent to see that I am not the sole autistic on Tumblr who has not leapt onto the neurodiversity bandwagon. If...
  6. thetrolligarchy reblogged this from angryress and added:
    Yep, it’s just a part of who I am too. But I choose to ignore the bad stuff, and focus on being the best me I can be....
  7. okamitakahashi reblogged this from theubermenschthatmakesyoucry
  8. gingerautie reblogged this from neurodiversitysci
  9. theubermenschthatmakesyoucry reblogged this from angryress and added:
    Honestly? After looking at your blog, you’ve got worse problems than autism. Like being a jerk. I pity you.
  10. madeofpatterns reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    have mixed feelings about being autistic. and different aspects of being autistic etc. have *no* mixed feelings about...
  11. withasmoothroundstone reblogged this from neurodiversitysci
  12. neurodiversitysci reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    And it’s also worth adding that the social model of disability also applies to folks who don’t want to be autistic....