Aspies in danger? Anything leading up to a holocaust?

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Things to keep an eye on:


1. parents aborting their kids because they are autistic
2. parents talking about putting their kids out of their misery
3. autistic people in asylums for no good reason
4. autistic people on drugs for no good reason
5. the word "autistic" used with generalized disdain



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How can doctors tell a fetus has autism?

We look the same as normal people. People with Down syndrome look different, same as other people with outside birth defects.


6. Can start getting rid of us by putting us up for an adoption

I'd rather be adopted out than raised by parents who didn't want me because I wasn't the perfect child that they'd been hoping for.

You can dx an aspie by looking at their face?

I find it amazing that people can prescribe/take drugs `for` Aspergers,a normal natural human neurological variation.Quit with the drugs! as that guy in Goodfellas said!

Well I am pretty much 100% certain none of this will ever happen, but if it does, I'll just be glad I was never diagnosed.

This is silly. The problem with diagnosing ASD's is that it has to be derived from behavior. Down's syndrome is easily recognizable due to the presence of a third 21st chromosome (Trisomy 21), ASD's cannot be detected in this same manner. It's only recognized in infancy or childhood (often times even later) from observing behavior, not genetic recognition. Also, on the mild end of the spectrum, the diagnosis is often blurry as it is, psychologists still debate whether someone is truly "mildly Aspergian" or simply an introverted intellectual with intense interests; many of the people here aren't even sure if they have it or not. Also, people with ASD's aren't on drugs because they're autistic, it's because of comorbidities like depression or anxiety.

I wish that I could say that it's ridiculous, but they're working on genetic testing for fetuses. It may never happen, but then again, it could. I would've never believed it myself until I saw this video:
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=VGXWE_htsqE[/youtube]

I think it is sad that people feel that just because you have a disability(for lack of a better term), physical or mental, that life isn't worth living. I am going to be a history teacher, and we had to take a class on special education as part of the course of study my school has to get the degree. We had a section on Euthanasia, and learned that something like 90% of babies with Downs Syndrome DXed before birth are aborted. Just because they are DXed at the wrong time they never live. I think that is criminal. Who is fit to say who should live and who should die? Nevertheless, I do not see any campaign to KILL people with Autism. You can't, at least now, know if a child is autistic before birth, and people will notice if kids suddenly start disappering. I do think that there is a definate stigma to autism and that, while seeing the point of helping those with severe forms function better, there is no need for a magic "cure" and it is not a death sentence. Treating it as such leads to the perceived "worthlessness" of those with autism and such programs like the Holocast.

1. I heard an NPR article about Israel where they've developed a blood test for a relatively common disease, where they can only tell that a kid will have it, not how severe it will be; there's been a rash of abortions by parents who don't want to deal with what may or may not just be a minor problem.

2. Haven't heard of this one happening.

3. Yes, but people with other disorders or no disorder who aren't good enough at convincing other people nothing is wrong get put in institutions for no good reason, too. One of my best friends, who is NT to the best of my knowledge, had that happen because his mother.. well, she's pretty well insane, but good at convincing the social workers that it isn't her that's the problem.

4. again, the drugs happen to other people too, not just autistic people. Perhaps a sign to be concerned about, and probably more prevalent for people on the spectrum, but I wouldn't panic.

5. Yeah, but the word.. I don't know.. "fat" is used with generalized disdain, too. As, in some schools/neighborhoods/cultures, is "smart." Be concerned, but not too concerned.

And, you know, in three or four years, if you'll just start that commune and let my sister and her family in, I'll have the money to help support it...