For example, it’s not the science inherent in the...

Sunday, April 10, 2011

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For example, it’s not the science inherent in the existence of firearms that kills people, people kill people.. but if I lived in a town where a sizeable enough amount of people thought I shouldn’t exist to ease “my suffering” or me being a burden or whatever and were willing to shot me to deal with it, I would probably be rather steadfastly against these people owning firearms. In the same way, as an autistic person pre-natal screening for ASD’s terrifies me and I will continue to oppose is with every fibre of my being.

Does this sound paranoid? You state that autism “does not seem like something that would cause that pressure to form” .. really? Are you aware that there’s material out there comparing autism to cancer, saying how an autistic child will ruin your life and your marriage (!?) and throwing terms like “soulless” around and that this is coming from “the World’s largest autism advocacy organisation” for goodness sake. You really think this wouldn’t have a distorting impact on people’s reproductive decisions, really?

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