So when I hear people on twitter saying "stop you're hurting us", how am I supposed to tell this apart from the arguments the religious people made to try to control me?
Not at all? I can see how a reasonable person, who views autism as a really painful thing that makes life hard and creates suffering, might think that it would be a loving and kind thing to do to stop future autism from existing. I saw some autistic people express this sentiment.
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And like, maybe you disagree, even disagree really strongly (I'm in the mostly disagree boat myself), but I can easily see how someone with really good intentions can make a good argument for why this should be the case. And boom, that's the discussion we're having.
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I think if that was your intent was to have a discussion and such - you’ve got to be willing to accept that people might be upset by the thought of if they should exist or not, and esp when it’s a choice given to random non autistic ppl or people who don’t have these conditions

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I don’t think that could happen in a way that didn’t give fuel to Autism Parents fuel for their shitty fires.... If that’s the debate - why should non autistic ppl get a say? It is hard -but I think it’s more because we live in society that doesn’t care about us - than who we are
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And I also will add that the frustrating part for a lot of us is that this kind of notion about autism being some horrible awful thing that’s no good - is exactly the misconceptions alot of advocates are trying to fight against.
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But I don't wanna go into this discussion *assuming* there's a right answer - this is one of my complaints and thus parallels to religion. I agree that they believe it's a misconception - but it's still a discussion we can have - especially because some autistic people disagree.
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