Speaking as a relatively high-functioning autistic person, and as a person who definitely perceives those people with autism I know as objectively blessed when compared to their allistic "peers", I'm trying to read this as the reporter's white-savior-y take on what may simply be a scientific advance?
All but the first paragraphs are pay walled but, here goes my charitable guess toward the scientists here;
Doctors have discovered how to undo a thing (in mice) that the author of this article describes as causing symptoms of autism. This is useful science I suppose, with it we might one day have the power to cure allism.
Alternatively, as other comments have pointed out, there are autistic people who are unable to live "normal" lives (save, for a moment, the argument over what the fuck a "normal" life is and who the fuck thinks they have the right to "save" it). Consider instead an autistic person who wishes they had any choice regarding their autism, it would be cool if the science of neurodivergence had been developed enough to provide them with that choice.
Realistically... I bear no illusions that choice might be involved. If doctors in the US had an excuse to call it "helping" when they fuck nonconsensually with someone's brain, I have no doubt I would be strapped to a fucking bed faster than you can say "free healthcare?". Between lobotomies and forced sterilization, the US has an undoubted record for society "cleansing".
Excuse me what the FUCK?
They really still trying to fucking cure us off the face of the earth huh
This is fucking disgusting and I can’t believe I’m seeing people here reacting in any way positively, especially autistic people!
This is genocidal shit!
“Curing” autism is genocide
Speaking as a relatively high-functioning autistic person, and as a person who definitely perceives those people with autism I know as objectively blessed when compared to their allistic "peers", I'm trying to read this as the reporter's white-savior-y take on what may simply be a scientific advance?
All but the first paragraphs are pay walled but, here goes my charitable guess toward the scientists here;
Doctors have discovered how to undo a thing (in mice) that the author of this article describes as causing symptoms of autism. This is useful science I suppose, with it we might one day have the power to cure allism. Alternatively, as other comments have pointed out, there are autistic people who are unable to live "normal" lives (save, for a moment, the argument over what the fuck a "normal" life is and who the fuck thinks they have the right to "save" it). Consider instead an autistic person who wishes they had any choice regarding their autism, it would be cool if the science of neurodivergence had been developed enough to provide them with that choice. Realistically... I bear no illusions that choice might be involved. If doctors in the US had an excuse to call it "helping" when they fuck nonconsensually with someone's brain, I have no doubt I would be strapped to a fucking bed faster than you can say "free healthcare?". Between lobotomies and forced sterilization, the US has an undoubted record for society "cleansing".