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Ok Im glad you were able to do that and that you can still have a good life. If we could fix it though, more opportunities would be available, maybe you'd have
by collegeburner 5y ago
Ok Im glad you were able to do that and that you can still have a good life. If we could fix it though, more opportunities would be available, maybe you'd have enjoyed it and could have it as a career you liked. There are also a lot of other people not so high functioning that literally just couldnt, and others who can't even live on their own as adults. Maybe you dont need a treatment like this but there are people where it would change their lives.
- gremlinsinc 5y agoSo you're saying society needs more Salesmen, less Einstein's and Alan Turings? Wonder how ww2 would've fared without them.
- shkkmo 5y agoAnd what if in the process if making everyone "salesman material" we divert a potential "weirdo genius" from making a much larger contribution? Diversity is important and valuable. I highly doubt that ASD (and our cognitive diversity in general) is an evolutionary mistake. That isn't to say that we shouldn't make tools and treatments available, but it absolutely does mean we shouldn't insist on "fixing" everyone with ASD.
- collegeburner 5y agoI guess my phrasing wasnt clear, I wasnt talking so much about "weirdo genius" level of function but more people who just cant function well. Theres a level where some people are very good at certain things but not so sociable, more like Aspergers disease, thats fine and caused by more stuff than just autism. Its when it starts preventing people from doing basic function, caring for themselves, holding basic conversation that it becomes a problem.
- shkkmo 5y agoI think this is an area where our choice of words and efforts to speak clearly are especially important. Empowering people is very different than fixing them.