Autists...

What do you love about your autie?

March 29th, 2007

There's a lot of negativity going on in the autism world. Right now, one prominent mercury-causes-autism list, parents are all talking about how you know you have an autistic if they do various disgusting or horrible things.

You see, it's political to like anything about an autistic person, rather than just the person "they would be if they were cured"). In fact, some of the pro-cure movement would disown you if you talk about anything good that doesn't involve the curing of autism in your loved one. There's a vested interest a lot of people have in making sure everyone knows autism is nothing but suffering and misery. Hating autism promotes a certain agenda. Liking, not just "loving in spite of the autism") an autistic person promotes an entirely different agenda.

I know what kind of person I'd rather have as my girlfriend, mother, or sibling.

I don't know exactly why, to the pro-cure groups, it is so vitally important to hate everything about autism. But I know the harm it causes - it justifies an "at all costs" approach. We don't need any more "at all costs" approaches.

So, in response to the garbage on the internet and elsewhere, I'm asking non-autistic readers of my blog to write about what they like about the autistic person 'or people) in their life. What makes your child, parent, lover, co-worker, etc., a great person? (Sure, we all know that autism has bad things as well as good, but I think plenty of people have focused on the bad, so maybe it's time to look at the good) Feel free to write about it as a comment to my blog, but it's just as cool if you write about somewhere else - or even if you just tell your autie what is wonderful about them.

Original post and comments: http://thiswayoflife.org/blog/?p=147

*smile* It's nice to see positive stuff about ASD people...

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