What things do you think shouldn't have been invented?

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Jeez, that undermined me back in high school, long before distance learning was ever discussed. The internet is my deepest and most damaging addiction.

In my opinion the only advantage of digital learning is that we don't cut down trees for the paper for schoolwork.

Comorbidities that hold a lot of autistic people back such as speech apraxia, behavioral problems, and intellectual disabilities. More severe forms of autism are caused by comorbid side effects rather than being autistic.

Declawing procedures for pets and DLC for games.

Autism cure and prevention campaigns.

Autism is not a disease or an illness and they are just scams and parasites who manipulate and brainwash parents of severely autistic kids.

You may say what about the autistics who are more severe? I say as someone who used to be severely autistic himself when was younger, I ask, What did a cure movement ever do to ever help people like me? Absolutely nothing. Besides they exploit (Eg. milk) the more severe forms of autism to get more money, I am autism is a perfect example, and I think autism speaks debunked themselves in that video.

If they truly cared about autistics who are more severe they would support the things that are proven to work such as therapies and interventions to kids who desperately need it.

I think a cure to autism is unrealistic, impossible, and counter productive.

Unrealistic because of what they expect from it, that autism will just go away and it will all be sunshine and rainbows afterwards. What if the autism goes away but not the comorbidities which actually hold back autistics.

Impossible because autism is not a disease or an illness and you can't cure something that isn't a disease or an illness.

Counter productive because autism is not a disease or illness and that money looking for a cure or prevention could be spent on therapies and interventions that actually work.

Besides a lot of these movements don't even use any logic or reasoning and just go off what they think will work.

Aridity.

Lack of precipitation (to me) makes everything look kind of lifeless, sad, and depressing.

Dry seasons also, going months without rain sucks, and I am in Southern California as of this post and so I know what going months without rain is. Mawsynram which is the rainiest city in the world only rains in the summer than its basically drought for the rest of the year.

No, Autism cannot be cured it is not a disease or an illness (look at the definition at Merriam Webster dictionary). Some people say you are against a cure because your just a stuck up mid-high functioning autistic, no I was actually once severely autistic (so I lived through it) and I am anti cure because autism isn’t a disease but is rather a neurodevelopmental disorder or a neurological condition, and for disorders and conditions you treat them not cure them.

Autism is not the problem, it is rather the side effects that come with it such as the developmental delays, apraxia of speech, intellectual disability, etc all of which can also exist within neurotypicals as well. People who were once severely autistic can and have made it and lessened in severity, and autism being a lifelong condition/disorder isn’t going to go away but rather the side effects of it pretty much will.

Besides, as long as someone can be a good, kind hearted person, be able to take care of themselves, and be able to become a productive member of society, why should it matter if they are autistic or not. Here is another answer I wrote.

My what you would call longer explanation on why I think a cure to autism is ridiculous.

If I had to explain a cure to autism in three words it would be: unrealistic, impossible, and counter-productive.

Its unrealistic because of what many people who want a cure expect out of it, for the autism to go away and it will just be all sunshine and rainbows afterwards. There is much more to autism than just being you know being autistic, and it also depends on the severity of the autism because some such as the severely autistics can be developmentally delayed and have meltdowns while others are aspies that need little to no therapy at all. You could probably take the autism away with a cure but not the developmental delays and besides not all people who are developmentally delayed are autistic.

It's impossible because autism isn’t a disease or an illness, it is a neurological developmental disorder or just neurological condition. Cure by nature refers to diseases and illnesses which autism is non of. To hypothetically cure autism since autism is neurological you would also need to modify the entire brain and nervous system which is most likely going to be impossible even if you used things like advanced computer programming.

Its counter-productive because let's say you have a severely autistic child and you put them in early intervention they might improve and lessen in severity. Besides things such as medicine and vaccines take a very very long time to be approved and developed, up to 10–25 years to be exact. What if the severely autistic child on early intervention gets better and is able to function in society afterwards, a lot can happen in 10–25 years (not even counting how long it would take to develop a cure just to get it approved in the United States and Canada). Developing a cure on average takes 10-20 years, so it would be around 20-45 years or even longer (probably up to 50-60 years or even longer than that because it depends and the autism cure movement existed for I would say 20-30 years now) if a cure to autism hypothetically existed which it wouldn't. Think of it like this way would you rather support treatments and therapies that are proven to work and actually help those with autism get a better life or just some hypothetical cure that doesn’t exist (probably never will exist) that isn’t proven to work and hasn’t been tested.

You also have to consider that if a cure was somehow found you have to consider this, what if it ends up not working in the long run and the autism just comes back?, what if the autism genetically mutates rendering it useless?, what if the cure has certain side effects and that it ends up backfiring?, what if it just gets rid of the autism and not the developmental delays? what if you can’t afford the cure if it ever did exist and ends up costing hundreds of millions? these are all things you have to think about.

A lot of people say to the autistics who aren’t severely affected that they are you know stuck up for accepting and being proud of having autism and not wanting a cure and they don’t know what it's like to live with severe autism. Note: I was one of them myself, I was once severely autistic (diagnosed around 3) but I am now 17 and have moderate autism (borderline mild autism) and can do a lot of stuff and can possibly live by myself one day.

Also desert and extremely dry heat as well. Humid heat must be pretty awful but at least it doesn't dry your skin out and cause droughts, everytime I am in dry desert heat it can make my skin feel a bit flaky and cause a lot of dead skin as well. Besides too little humidity is also very uncomfortable to and the most comfortable humidity level is somewhere in the middle.

I'm gonna put child labour at the top of the list.

Ideological Collectivism: The idea of dividing and conquering the human conscience by isms, ologies, ocracies, ists, new social movements, NRM’s (organized religion) and alternative subcultures into a state of echo chambers, groupthink, conformity and tribalism

Obscurantism (has occurred since the antiquity of humanity)

Public Relations (the Freudian Psychoanalytic form envisioned by Edward Bernays)

Gender Science/Studies

Nutritional Science (always listen to your body (unique physiological profiles that diversify from individual to individual) as opposed to domineering dietocrats, advocacy groups and the mainstream)

Globalization (all of its forms including multiculturalism, geopolitical science, international relations, supranationalism and intergovernmentalism)

The Diamond Industry (man-made diamonds are one of the few synthetic creations that’s morally and economically reasonable)

Plastic, Plastic, Plastic and Plastic…

Bisphenol-A, Phthalates and Parabens

PCB’s

Glyphosate and pesticides (e.g., Neonicotinoid)

Recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH)

Water fluoridation

High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) (known as Glucose-Fructose Syrup in the UK)

Artificial Sweeteners (esp. Aspartame), Colours, Flavours (enhancers such as MSG), Preservatives (Potassium Sorbate and Sodium Benzoate) and additives (e.g., Brominated Vegetable Oil (BVO))

Chemical and Biological Warfare (Nuclear Weapons, Dioxin, Agent Orange etc.)

Geoengineering

“Energy” Drinks

Unfermented Soy, “Energy” bars, Cereal and “low-fat” products as “health foods

GM Crops

Biotechnological perversion of food

Greenwashing (e.g., CFL Bulbs, Biosolids, Biofuels etc.)

“Evidence Based” Policy Decision Making (oxymoron)

Direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA)

Academic/Science Journal Paywalls ("science for sale")

Crystal Meth and Zombie “Narcotics” like Krokodil (Desomorphine) & Flakka (α-Pyrrolidinopentiophenone)

Processed Foods (but I do love sausages and bacon – cognitive dissonance I know)

Fast Fashion (mass automated production of very cheap clothes employed by slave labour)

Acrylic, Polyester and most synthetic fabrics

Macroeconomic Philosophy and “Conventional” Economics

International Finance, Private Central Banking, Fractional Reserve Lending and Usury (Compound Interest as a concept really)

The adulation of gold commodity metal as "God's money"

Credit Cards

Money Laundering

Cryptocurrency

Microtransactions

Neoconservatism

Neoliberal Globalization

Marxism

“Democratic” Socialism

Communism

Transhumanism

Fascism (Orwellian Totalitarianism, Cultural/Economic Imperialism, Neo-Nazism, Racial Supremacy etc.)

Jingoism

Biblical Creationism

Televangelism

The Monarchy

Scientology

Unmeritocratic Power Structures (e.g., Feudalism, Hindu Caste and the macroeconomic system)

Nepotism

The False Dichotomy between Materialistic Consumerism and Scarcity based Minimalism (both boring and soulless)

Democracy (I don’t believe it exists)

The Parker Brother’s idea of promoting necromancy into a board game

The “Problem of Evil” concept (I don’t believe there is a pure good (we all have our own inner personal demons, but I believe in the existence of pure evil)

Trophy Hunting

The Tide Pod challenge (telling the generation of people who fall for this that they contain gluten would be the best way to discourage them (not to antagonize genuine gluten intolerance (NCGS) and celiac sufferers on this forum).

Man Made Disease Creation

Mass Psychiatric Drugging of children (esp. Ritalin)
Digital Identity/Human Microchipping

Speed Dating

Online Dating

The Porn Industry

Beauty Pageants

Palm Oil

Hershey’s Chocolate (absolutely disgusting )

Chewing Gum

Gerrymandering

Parking Meters

Human Cloning

Windows Vista

Google Chrome

CGI

Autotune

So-called “music” - Hip hop, Garage, Rap, Bubblegum, Teen pop, Dub-step, Modern R&B, Boy/Girl bands (anything mainstream nowadays)

SMS language

Social media networking

Lip Sync

Orange Fake Tans

Modern Art

Popular Culture (e.g., materialistic consumerism or consumer culture)

Mainstreaming of Geek “Culture”

Reality TV

Soap Operas

Digital Learning (esp. Zoom)

Shoelaces (why, why, why)

Pop up ads

Photoshop

Tattoos

Body Piercings

Botox/Breast Implants

Alcohol, Alcohol, Alcohol and Alcohol

Neckbeards (nothing greater has been used to dehumanize autistics and aspies)

There's an awful lot of stuff being discussed in here that occurs naturally and therefore wasn't invented, simply experienced or observed, and named.

How could anyone avoid inventing deserts when deserts weren't invented in the first place?

What things do you think shouldn't of been invented?

Itchy bums

I'll add "Smart Meters" to my list.