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I appreciate that Baron-Cohen, who's made a fine career off autistic people without doing a damn thing to help them (extreme male brain, lawl), has no intention of helping us now or in the future. But could we maybe lock him in a room with Jenny McCarthy?
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Autism is a debilitating disorder that occasional produces useful traits as a side effect. And the gulag produced some inspiring books. And ebola inspired a bunch of cool zombie movies. My suffering doesn't exist to justify Baron-Cohen's preening moralizing. He's not helping.
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My left frontal lobe is about 40% bigger than it should be, probably thanks to a mosaic mutation affecting fetal brain development, and the rest of my brain is kinda smooshed around because of it. I'm really, really, almost supernaturally good at pattern recognition.
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Which would be a cool superpower if I were capable of holding a job or going out in public. I'd rather have a cure, honestly. If that's 'eugenics', then eugenics is a good thing. Don't fucking entrench my suffering and pretend you're looking out for me.
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I can't speak for every autistic's experience, but i really think a lot of the symptoms of autism are actually symptoms of being abused and treated like garbage during one's formative years for being abnormal. I'm always wondering how much of my terror of other people is my
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autism and how much of it is going through so much of my life in circumstances where terror was actually the correct, rational response to other people being around a lot of the time. I have no idea how to disentangle that. We don't really know what a "normal" autistic person
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in a world where being autistic DOESN'T typically lead to brutal mistreatment would be like. Then again, I kind of doubt we'll ever have a world where autistic people AREN'T considered trash, so I suppose the question of how much the problems with autism are actually the result
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of environment rather than intrinsic to autism might be sort of academic :(
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Jesus, that was rambling, sorry about that.
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.