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Sensitive Topic What do you think about those who want to "cure" us?

wanderer03 said:
You know what, I don't seek a cure. I just want the same legal protections afforded people with physical handicaps.
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Ah, it took me a moment but, now I get it.
Legally you should have those protections, not because you're necessarily handicapped, but because you can be discriminated against.
 
Jacoby said:
Well you can't "cure" us, maybe there will be better treatments in childhood and eventually prenatal screening but there is no curing us already here. I think the idea of prenatal screening for ASD to be unethical and immoral but it's probably inevitable.
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I'm with you on the dangers of prenatal screening.
 
I'm not sick, so I don't need a cure.
I'm not broken, so I don't need to be fixed.
I simply desire to accepted for who I am. If anyone has a problem accepting my autism then they're then one who has a problem not me, and perhaps they're then ones who need fixing.
 
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