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Are you autistic? || If you press the button, no person with autism is ever born again (or become autistic through other means), though existing people are left unchanged. Do you press the button?

Yes | Yes
4.9%
Yes | No
22%
No | Yes
25%
No | No
48%

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I'm not going to vote, because this is not just a fun thought experiment to me; I'll just say that things have never, ever gone well when people start trying to decide what kinds of people shouldn't exist.

Aella

@Aella_Girl

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@epballou

I think I generally agree, but how do you feel about extremes? Like, if you could genetically engineer humanity so nobody ever had a cluster headache ever again, would you?

5:36 PM · Apr 13, 2020

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I don't think we know enough about the human genome and how it works, or human neurology, to safely say yes to this. Also this is really comparing apples and oranges. Autism is inherent to who we are as people on multiple levels...

Chris is going down with the ship

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Did you just compare neurological differences to headaches? Autism is part of who I am. Who my son is, who my wife is. It is not a symptom like a headache that can be removed. No one who has cluster headaches sees them as part of their identity.

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Did you honestly believe this would go well for you, or are you just trolling for attention?