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It's not always really a disability. Some have it light enough that it's not really a hinderence moreso than a difference. I had a minor diagnosis of it and so
by jimmaswell 12y ago
It's not always really a disability. Some have it light enough that it's not really a hinderence moreso than a difference. I had a minor diagnosis of it and so have others I know, and I don't feel like it negatively impacts my quality of life. I'm not alone in this and your one data point doen't disprove this.
This doesn't mean it shouldn't me midigated but you shouldn't make such sweeping claims about it.
- jerf 12y agoI am well aware of that. My point is, in some sense, the exact opposite... the fact that some people like you have it to a very minor degree shouldn't result in researchers having to half-apologize for trying to find treatments for it. Autism runs from barely-present all the way to total incapacitation and institutionalization... the idea that researchers have to defend themselves from people for trying to help cure it is crazy. The fact that they may or may not cure it someday, or mitigate it, or change it, none of that affects the humanity of the individuals, or who they are, or is a denial of anything about them, or anything like that, and I sincerely hope nobody ever so much as stalls a research application as a result of logic like this.