If I could do something to help autistics, I would....

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I guess to some extent, that would be true. You would be graded based upon how close you were to meeting your goal. If you got to 75-80%, you would pass the grade.

Cure them.

I'd teach them to cook.

Create a planned community where there would be parkland in the center, with quiet apartments nearby, energy efficient, with a place that offered help with socializing and job issues, where there were some businesses we could work and close to a place like a industrial park for jobs. NTs could live there too to work in places like the Walgreens but mostly it would be a place that accommodates our differences and allows pets and has quiet buildings.

You realize that an ethical cure is procured with, at minimum, the assent of the one being cured, right? How will you go about that in a society that often has difficulty giving us choice?



Maybe my school can be there. We can add in a sensory room where kids can go for recess or to calm down.

In common with many of the previous posts I would make it so everyone, not just people with Aspergers, were confident to be themselves and celebrate the positives they bring to society rather than concentrate on the negative aspects.

I would hope for something that could have a similar effect for people with Aspergers and other PDD's to that of the Paralympics for those with physical disabilities. The world may not have changed overnight but I feel a softening of attitudes towards people with disabilities and the start of a path that might one day lead to greater acceptance for all people with disabilities, disorders or anything that makes tham differ from the 'norm'.

I'd start a company that hires more people on the autism spectrum than NT's. It will pay ALL workers, all the way down to janitors, above poverty. The company will make video games, educational software for AS people about NT's and vice versa, tools to help people with sensory problems cope with the mad world, etc. The Danish company Specialisterne hires ONLY people on the autism spectrum, but I see some need for NT's (prepared to work with lots of AS people) to provide input on how their minds work, which I will need.

This company will also run a school, educating people with Asperger's about neurotypical behavior, and vice versa. Basically, it will do everything it can to bridge the "language barrier" of sorts between them. Said school will have housing with SOUND-PROOF bedrooms so people with sensory problems can go in there and be GUARANTEED peace and quiet. Lighting will be indirect and thereby less harsh.

Oh, and it will NEVER lobby the government. PERIOD. I'm against attaching money to how people in Congress vote in principle. To me, IT IS BRIBERY.

Honest answer to this is, I don't know. Some type of education reform would certainly help. But I don't know what capacity. Maybe easier access to accelerated learning pace for subjects that the autistic child shows aptitude for. Maybe allow children to specialize in particular topics earlier. Dunno how to do that, but that would have made school easier for me.

Okay Female, I tried to be welcoming on the "Getting to Know Each Other" forum, but when I read your OP again, I realised that you actually insinuated that people on the spectrum aren't human beings. I hereby revoke my previously welcoming and supportive attitude.

If you are so adamant that you want to be ashamed of who you are, no one's going to stop you, but don't inflict your unhealthy ideals upon us all.

"Cure them" implies that you would be happy to cure all Autistics without their consent. Why did you even join if all you wanted to do was to inflict negativity upon us?

The problem with creating a company that only hires asperger people is that you need to interact with NTs in order to get money.

You can help by finding a cure for the ones like me that love to have a cure . Yes I do know that there is ones on the spectrum that do not what a cure. And I am very OK with that. But for some like me that is on the lower end of the spectrum we what a cure. I maybe or Maybe not I feel this way if I was on the higher end of the spectrum. But I am not.

Yes I say cure them but Just if "they pick" to get the cure. Not every ones whats a cure. I am one that whats one but not every one feels that way.

I also want a cure because have A separate community for aspies would be costly and that it would be wrong because that is like separating white people and black people. People with autism have live in this world to.

I too, would try to make everyone more accepting of each other's difficulties/issues/challenges/differences.
Of course, that requires changing the entire social structure, so it would be a monumental undertaking!

Sincerely,
Matthew

Again, society has issues with giving us choices. How is that going to happen?

And since an ethical cure would require, at minimum, assent, people will probably still want a separate community. What I have in mind is an autistic-run, autistic-majority community.

The difference with a asperger/autistic dominated environment is that the AS perspective will be encouraged and unlike ordinary society where such perspective is marginalized by the very structure and organization.

Any situation where you involve NTs. The status game will ensue which is detrimental to people with AS because it will be a blind spot. The requirement for a demand based social interaction will also ensue.

The default case is that people want to "correct" and demand interaction, "respect" (for status) etc.. They just can't take a step back, appreciate, let things depend and be subject rather than interaction oriented. The society is sick from neurotypicalism, it's a hard disease with the majority of the affected lacking insight into their difficulties.

Not convinced?, imagine life without internet in a small village..

I would make assessments FREE and EXTENSIVE!