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Nevermind age, the child also has autism. They may not be able to consent in any circumstance. I have a child with autism. He's a so-called "high functioning" a
by sidlls 7y ago
Nevermind age, the child also has autism. They may not be able to consent in any circumstance. I have a child with autism. He's a so-called "high functioning" autistic individual (goes to public school, has social interaction with peers outside of school, etc.). He's showing signs of above average intelligence and talent in some things and it would be easy for someone to think he understands "consent" at this level. Sure, parents are able to give consent for their kids due to their minority age, but there are limits to that power. This blog post was unsettling, and not in a "oh you're just afraid of hackers doing what they do" sort of way.
- papln 7y agoYour claim that an autistic could like you describe is less capable of consent than an average child is illectually suspect and dehumanized. It's also an argument that pushes kids into abusive ABA therapies against their will, since their expressed preferences are considered invalid.
- kragen 7y agoI think it's really allistic people who are less capable of consent. They have a strong tendency to choose their beliefs and actions based on herd instincts rather than rational evidence, while autistic people, despite our numerous problems, have a much easier time considering evidence rationally. It was just yesterday that an (adult!) allistic friend of mine was posting on Facebook looking for advice on treating her kidney infection without antibiotics. Her irrational allistic friends were giving her all kinds of ridiculously terrible medical advice (“Alka-Seltzer cleared up my UTI”), and I looked up the clinical practice guidelines and yelled at her to GET ANTIBIOTICS.