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>No one who has the ability to not be autistic, would choose to be. How do you know that? You aren't an autistic person, what gives you the right to suddenly s
by ausbah 8y ago
>No one who has the ability to not be autistic, would choose to be.
How do you know that? You aren't an autistic person, what gives you the right to suddenly speak for autistic people?
>This is yet another example of how our toxic modern culture turns everything into an "identity".
Google literally defines identity as "the fact of being who or what a person or thing is". Ergo a person with autism can have autism as apart of their identity. You can't just act like something someone is born with isn't apart of their identity.
Yeah, not everything someone is born with is worthy of making a fuss about, but I think things that do actively impact a person's wellbeing and interactions with society (developmental disorders, disabilities, race(?), etc.) are worthy of having a discussion about how to deal with them.
I know almost any autistic people is capable of living just as fulfilling of a life as anyone else, the bigger issue for me is people like you looking down on those who have slight deviations from established ideas of "normal" - but who are none the less capable of living fulfilling lives, contribuing to society, and interacting with others.
- DiseasedBadger 8y agoYou're perspective is flawed. You can't assume everyone is equally able to speak for themselves. One might not speak ill of a tyrant one has no prospects of escaping.
- geofft 8y agoThat's generally because one fears retribution from a tyrant. Autism is not a tyrant and has neither desire nor means of retribution, so your argument makes no sense. You're just grasping at explanations to dismiss arguments that make you unhappy.
- Nomentatus 8y agoThe poster thinks 'tis neurotypicals which one cannot escape, I believe.
- ausbah 8y ago>You can't assume everyone is equally able to speak for themselves. Okay some people can't speak for themselves, what gives you in particular any authority to speak for those who can't? Even then, that doesn't deal with the matter of those who can speak for themselves.
- Nomentatus 8y agoCharity, sometimes. Self-interest other times, but maybe charity this time. As long as children exist, we'd best all be capable of speaking for at least some of those who can't speak easily for themselves.
- dooglius 8y agoGoogle's definition of "identity" definitely does not capture the word as I understand it, and as I believe the GP was using it.