I’m quite sick of all the studies that only talk about problems. If a side effect of some autistic conditions can mean an advantage their area of deep focus can this not also be celebrated ? Often even people with deep autism with associated problems achieve extraordinary things through their focus and persistence.
Otherwise all is presented is negative with no positive. I’d quite like to be seen also from the positive side when it’s present thank you.
I’m happy that I’m not neurotypical and please can’t they cancel trying to cure this. Sounds all too much like eugenics.
The only positive thing said about autism in that entire gigantic write-up is "Special interests may be a source of pleasure and motivation and provide avenues for education and employment later in life"
Why would doctors treat autism as being anything but negative with no positive when Autism is literally defined in that way? Of course, people since Leo Kanner and Hans Aspergers noted Autistics having extraordinary abilities, and people are vaguely aware of this, but doctors hold autistics in worse contempt than the general population mostly because you can't bill insurance to treat a "difference" or get a study grant to research a "difference". So the system they're in forces them to treat autistics as contemptible and even in need of curing. Besides that, psychiatry is after all the study of mental illness and disorders, not of mental differences, so there's a bias just from training.
Legal, UN definition, trying to cure a mental disorder is not eugenics. It is logically the same idea as eugenics though, the UN just didn't outlaw this idea since the mentally disordered were considered sufficiently inferior. Autistics can also be banned from sperm banks.
There's nothing to be done really as a mere not neurotypical internet dweller. The inertia of the status quo is like a train and many people benefit from it. The only real choice you have is to call yourself something like "Not neurotypical" instead of "Autistic".
I don’t think that’s necessarily true even if we only consider those with high-functioning autism (and the average is significantly lower if we include everyone).
Some people with autism have a very high IQ, just like some people who don’t have it.
Try telling that to my neighbor whose kid constantly throws violent tantrums multiple times a week. It’s very unfortunate, it happened to some very nice people.
Otherwise all is presented is negative with no positive. I’d quite like to be seen also from the positive side when it’s present thank you.
I’m happy that I’m not neurotypical and please can’t they cancel trying to cure this. Sounds all too much like eugenics.