Autism

[DrDanLEdmunds]

Autism is best understood not as a dreaded disease, but as a mode of being," says Dr. Dan Edmunds, who's worked with many spectrum kids in his Kingston, Pennsylvania, practice. "What we should be doing is supporting and assisting these people in being able to navigate the mainstream. Aversive behavioral therapy—devising various means of force and coercion to make them something other than what they are—is terrible, although a natural outgrowth of the conformist mind-set. There's an insistence that they must enter our world. Well, I must first enter theirs before I can show them anything of mine."

 

[Mia]

Agreed, don't need to be cured or fixed.

 

[tree]

I see OP is in good company.
George Bernard Shaw said,
"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/g/georgebern100030.html

Any particular reason for using the third person here, DrDanLEdmunds ?

 

[DrDanLEdmunds]

It is from an article. It does not take much to figure that out.

 

[tree]

DrDanLEdmunds
True enough.

I wondered why you found it preferable to quote
rather than speak directly. Or to cite the article,
saying something like, this tells my view.