Please read this "Children Afflicted With Autism"

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I started reading this and thought...WTH? I wish those who do not have autism would stop speaking for those who do.
My son is not "afflicted with autism"...there is no "horrid and cruel despair"...except of course, because of society and their need to make everyone be the same...because of society's need to make such statements about them...sigh...ok, I will stop.

Children Afflicted With Autism

That article makes me want to puke. I'm not afflicted with anything, autism isn't a life sentence and I feel that society needs to get over itself. I don't like the way that society is going with these types of articles and their precious Autism Speaks which raises their money on genetic research which will lead to genetic screening, which will lead to the abortion of future autistics. We haven't gone forward at all. We've gone backwards. This type of thinking is reminiscent of the Holocaust of Nazi Germany in the 30s and 40s. We're going backwards.

I also apologize if my above statement seems harsh to some members. I had to get this off my chest, because I've had the misfortune of meeting too many peers who thought that I should have been aborted. It's not a good feeling when your own generation doesn't want you alive.

That's why I feel like this forum is so important. There are educated professionals speaking on our behalf, but we have a voice, and can speak for ourselves right here. There are people who can barely speak that are regulars on here, that have MUCH to say. We can be our own voice. Here, what we say can make a difference.

We come from all over the world. We are different races, cultures, and religions. But we have something special in common that makes us a unique people, and even there, we are all as different as snow flakes, no two exactly alike. Yet I find myself in so many of the posts I read here. I'm grateful for everyone here.

There are parents who are getting online, doing everything they can for their kids, sometimes they come here looking for answers. What are we saying to them? What impression are we giving? I hope every time we get on here, we see it as an opportunity to be part of a cause, because every thing said here goes down in history, and our voice is being heard. If it is a voice of dissonance, then the scientists and the board members will win the ears of those listening. But if we speak together, the world will listen.

*the applause lamp is now lit*

"A virtual torture chamber from which one has no escape" ?!

Is she talking Autism or my place of work? In either case its at a minimum, very melodramatic.

Just skimming that article was torture. How demeaning.

What irritates me the most are statements like the one about how heartbreaking it apparently is that "some" children with autism cannot express themselves.

Because often this statement comes together with the assumption that adults and those children and adults who can talk can express what they feel.

As if talking with your voice or writing or typing = expressing yourself rather than echoing other people trying to somehow make people understand and to use your communicational abilities to make others aware of even most basic things such as that you're thirsty when you're thirsty.

I couldn't stand to read past the second segment. I feel immense anger at whoever wrote that!

I don't think I'm "afflicted" with autism... I get "afflicted" with the Flu or a sore toe nail. Very patronizing or even rude, I'd say, to classify a group as "afflicted". I decline to read the article based on the title

Charles

Well, there are a few who match that description, but this is so way OVERBOARD & as said, melodramtic that no wonder its hacking a number of off. ROYALLY!!

Matthew

I preferred 'goldielocks and three bears' less fantasy in it.

I was too busy shuddering at the horrible forced colloquial voice to take in the content.
Give me my tactile senstitivity any day over that; at least most of the time it doesn't make me want to rip my own brain out.