I've been trying to discuss the merits of tabooing such discussions with @mykola, and I'm as confused as ever. He asserts that "autism is not a disease", and I think this is important information which the "Yes" voters might be missing. How else to inform them?
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I see autism as a spectrum like sexuality so "no autistic people" sounds similar to me as "nobody who ever had a same sex kiss once".
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Yeah, this is sort of what makes the question interesting to me? Like, I'm on the spectrum and *strongly* value the kind of brain I have and other brains like me. Would I sacrifice that in order to spare people the pain of very severe autism? I don't know it's real tough.
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People who don't grow up with something tend to see those challenges as things "no one should ever have to go through" but while that's what they think they're saying, what they're actually communicating is "these people are worth so much less than others they shouldn't exist"
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A particularly poignant example of this is the deaf community and the VERY split feelings about things like cochlear implant tech.
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I think people are upset because so many of the people voting don't have autism but would genocide autistic people. One dude in the replies was talking about how high functioning autists could be "allowed to live"
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But the poll is not about genocide. It's a magic button that just eliminates autism pre-birth. Kinda like, if you were gonna get a sperm+egg combo that results in autism, it just... ends up being a different combo instead.
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people get offended at even contemplating things, not realizing it makes their argument and pov look weak.
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You've picked one of the topics in which honest conversations are totally forbidden. Ask
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Because it should not even be asked.
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