Turned down because of dyslexia!

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I read up how a guy with dyslexia was turned down from a London sperm bank.

Do you think that's crazy?

It's nuts!

They have a right to turn down whomever they want to, for any reason or for no reason at all.

Why would a sperm bank want to store dodgy genes?

Maybe he simply misread the sign and it actually said "Speed Bank."

Dyslexia is not really "in the genes."

Anybody from any background could get it.

Anyway, I've met many dyslexics who are able to compensate so much that nobody would suspect they have it. Frequently, they have excellent social skills.

Being able to adapt means that you have "good" genes.

I don't think anyone could "get" dyslexia, you're either born with it or you're not. If you do happen to be born with it you're stuck with it for the rest of your life, although, as with autism, some people do develop coping strategies. Nevertheless, coping strategies or not, it's still not a bundle of laughs that you'd wish your offspring to have if it could be avoided. It probably doesn't quite fit into the Blonde Aryan Superman eugenics of sperm banks anyway.

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Shouldn't take the chance. Bad genes stacking up is how monsters like me come into existence. Besides, if the sperm bank doesn't like dyslexics, that's their prerogative.

Honestly it seems a bit pervy for someone to even want to give sperm if you ask me.

If you don't have mutations, you don't have evolution. End of story.

In order for a species to survive, they have to develop coping mechanisms. Some of them involve things which might seem "pathological" at first glance.

People with Asperger's syndrome were also turned down from the sperm bank

Evolution is more complicated than random mutation = profit. How does dyslexia make life in anyway easier for anyone?

Sperm banks are run on eugentic principles so they obviously don't want anything less than perfect donors. They probably turn down people with HIV, Parkinsons Disease, Downs Syndrome, Inherited Heart Disease and a whole load of other conditions too and who's to blame them? Accepting "faulty sperm" would hardly be a good business model and at the end of the day that's all sperm banks are, privately run business concerns. As private businesses they have every right to decide who they wish to receive donations from. Do you think any prospective "sperm recipient" mother would wish to risk conceiving a child with any of those conditions if the chances of doing so could be significantly reduced simply and efficiently by rejecting donors with those conditions?

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Why do you even care so much what sperm banks are doing?

If you want a sperm bank which accepts autistics as donors, you'd better make it yourself. Good luck finding recipients.

I think it kinda reflects society's attitude towards aspergers and there right to having children etc.....

Is this a revelation for you? That society despises autism? People won't say it, but it's obvious that's the truth. People that actually respect those on the ASD, as opposed to pitying and looking down on them, are rare.