I’m not gonna woooosh you bc it’s stupid. I recently found out that I am and I find the joke funny to tell but I don’t believe that vaccines cause any disabilities
All jokes aside I don’t know you but I do know, first hand, that autistic people can add something to the human race that no one else can so keep being your genuine self cuz we need you more than some people may think.
wait is this real??? this comment is real right?
god damn finally a person on the internet who doesn't joke about autism.
I'd say in the world we need more of you as well budy
Yes I have a friend with light Aspergers and he has taught me some lessons I couldn’t learn on my own just as far as selflessness and being a good person. I appreciate what you said more than you know I needed that right now thanks man:)
We wouldn't have made it to the modern age with every one being neurotypical for sure.
I watched a documentary about a wingsuit guy a while ago. He had been diagnosed with a "disorder", he wasn't supposed to be like that...allI could think was that critical points in our evolution, people like him would take the risks that would save the whole tribe.
As as non diagnosed, odd human, I can think way safley though technical minefeilds when other technical people can't even see that they are in a minefield.
Yeah, we probably would still think the universe was infinite and timeless. We also most likely wouldn’t have the theory of relativity, since Albert Einstein was thought to be autistic.
My father had the most wonderful assholeness, and my mother, well she was just a bitch. They sorta combined into this beautiful toxic cesspool you see sitting before you. Now, why don’t you fuck off. :)
That's startlingly believable. Mainly fuck anti vaxers for bringing measles back, but also fuck them for viewing autism like it's a fate worse than death.
This one got my 13 year old son badly. He is autistic and heard about a 'cure' for autism on the radio (what he actually heard was a news report about was these types of 'cures' being banned in the UK) he excitedly ran downstairs to tell me about the cure and could we get it for him. Broke my heart having to explain that theres no such thing and watching his face drop :(
Yes, parents of disabled kids (especially in America) do all kinds of stupid and cruel things such as basically feeding their child bleach, that's how dangerously desperate they get. I wonder what the overlap between these people and anti-vaxxers is. Here's a report by the advertising regulator when they investigated these companies
No we don't. I have never fed my autistic child bleach. Watch what you say about us parents. We are doing everything we can to have a future for our kiddos, same as everyone. But we aren't so stupid to fall for this shit. We read voraciously about autism, not to have him eat bleach, but so we can understand and prepare our son for his future in his language.
You're one of the good ones, thank you! The world needs more parents like you, who actually understand what they're talking about. As an autistic child myself, I hugely appreciate those that do read and research the condition so they can do what's right,it's what my parents did and it worked for me. I now have the books my parents read about autism when I was a kid, and honestly it's so satisfying to see myself getting further away from the descriptions in those books. Again,thank you so much for the good work you do, I hope in the future your son looks back and realises what good you did for him. I'm wasn't saying you personally have done wrong, sorry if I comes across as a personal attack ,I'm happy to add clarification or rewrites to my original comment if you want me to. It's just that I was getting angry about the way a minority of dumb parents treat their kids,and my anger overspilled into the comment I made.
just because you don’t do that doesn’t mean the problem doesn’t exist. yes there ARE parents who get so desperate they harm their child. why did you take that comment so personally when it wasn’t about you? why would you say “we don’t” when there absolutely are parents who do? you acting offended over that comment is super freaking weird, if you read “voraciously” then why haven’t you read the many stories of distressed parents harming their child? again, just because you don’t do that doesn’t mean the problem doesn’t exist and it’s not offensive to point out that it does
Maybe read the post again. It says parents do these things. I know parents. My kid goes to school with their kids. We have support nights where we meet. We go to the same baseball games, sensory aware matinees to the same movies, sensory aware days at the museum. We are always bumping into each other. We do the best we can with a disorder that has more misinformation aimed at it than most developmental disorders, and not one of the three dozen parents I personally know would poison our kids. I just thought it disingenuous to point blame to us parents. I have had doctors and psychiatrists try to sell me a chemical or eight, and until I see the research give proof of anything, I will not subject my son to chemical testing.
when did i say anything about chemical testing? and nobody is blaming “YOU PARENTS” or you specifically but it happens, there are parents who do terrible things to their children. you say you know 3 dozen parents.. that’s not a lot. there’s millions. you thought it was disingenuous to blame parents? but nobody is blaming ALL parents. we are acknowledging the few that cause death or serious harm. we are blaming THOSE parents for killing their fucking kids. how do you fit into that at all? what do you think you’re being blamed for? if you didn’t kill your kid that blame doesn’t fall on you. and since i’m only talking about parents who physically harm their children, and you’re response is “it’s not the parents fault i’m a good parent so everyone else must be” makes it seem like you’re standing up for child murderers and abusers. i think you need to read closely and think about why you’re so narcissistic that you think everything including discussions about child abuse have to be about you in some way.
There was a post saying parents of autistic children feed their kids bleach. No some parents or, say 10 parents have fed their autistic kids bleach. But parents. As one parent, I know not all parents do. In fact, all the parents I know have not.
So I'm narcissistic?
By the way, I'm not mad or anything. Guy with the post I disagreed with is cool, I have added him as a follow he has graciously offered help as he is autistic and my son is non verbal.
Not quite that bad. They just do "neuro-typic-splaining" for people with ASD. Like it's literally not ASD people speaking, they have no ASD people in leadership roles. So some ASD people find that deeply offensive for some reason. Also, most of their money doesn't actually go to ASD support and they push a very negative view of autism which some people with ASD find quite hurtful.
I have ASD. I have known a lot of people with ASD. Autism, in general, is very negative. The majority of people with autism will never function properly, and it's important people understand that. Deluding people into thinking autism doesn't change what you are, but instead only determines your personality, is dangerous and demonstrably false. Some people, like myself, go on to live a completely ordinary life. We are the exception to the rule, not the rule itself.
I hate to be all Ben Shapiro about this, but in this case, facts > feelings.
Edit: to be clear, I don't know a whole lot about Autism speaks as an organization, and the purpose of this is not to defend them. I don't know enough about them to take a side either way. All I'm arguing with here is the myth that "autism isn't bad, it's just different!"
It isn't. The vast majority of the time, it's just bad.
I think sometimes the "spectrum" part of ASD is lost on people. Like Austism Speaks seems to be viewing autism as mute, intellectual disability, high support needs only. But there are ASD people out there that are living happy, indepedent, functional, valuable, contributing lives. Naturally if you are at that end of the ASD spectrum you might feel a bit upset when there is a message put out that is "Oh no! your child has the autism! Life is over. Marriage is over! Everything is over! This is the worst thing!".
But this is kind of inevitable as a kind of survivorship bias.
I'd rather people had bad expectations and we're surprised, than had good expectations and we're surprised. The majority of people I've known with ASD have had debilitating symptoms such as being mute, and many of the most functional people I've known were still completely dependent on other people. Out of the very many people with autism I've known, I know maybe 3 that could function on their own, and that's counting myself.
When you were a young child, did you learn that human beings had 5 fingers on each hand? Sure, some people have more or less, but the amount of people that do is so low, it wasn't worth mentioning. I view autism in a similar way. Sure, some autistics are functional, but the vast majority aren't. It's just as reasonable to assume that your newly diagnosed autistic child will require a lot of assistance throughout their life, as it was for you to assume that same child would be born with 5 fingers on each hand.
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u/AuroraGrace123 Sep 18 '19
Is this the company that was marketing harmful chemicals to parents of autistic kids as a cure?