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Should eradicating Austism be considered a hate crime?
yes 51%  51%  [ 65 ]
no 19%  19%  [ 24 ]
maybe, given the right circumstances 23%  23%  [ 30 ]
I don't know 7%  7%  [ 9 ]
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20 Mar 2008, 6:05 am

How old are you, by the way?


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20 Mar 2008, 6:16 pm

That's irrelevant and none of your business.



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25 Mar 2008, 1:18 pm

Something I learned in Alanon: When you finally stop banging your head against the wall, it ceases to be painful.

Citing Fox News or CNN I can easily see as unreliable sourcing, but BBC??? Egads, what next?



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27 Mar 2008, 5:28 pm

i would prefer NOT to be cured as i am happy to be a aspie sure i feel like an alien to people but i would rather be who i am now than someone else


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28 Mar 2008, 12:34 am

I think that if people just realize that autism is a developmental disorder then maybe they wont need to think about this issue.



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28 Mar 2008, 9:22 am

PeteTheRabbit wrote:
I think that if people just realize that autism is a developmental disorder then maybe they wont need to think about this issue.


Which is why it is so all-fired important that people who also believe this to be true, stand up and shout it from the rooftops, because otherwise, the only voice being heard is that of AS.



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29 Mar 2008, 5:27 am

PeteTheRabbit wrote:
I think that if people just realize that autism is a developmental disorder then maybe they wont need to think about this issue.


No that won't work - because they see "disorder" and think negative instantly. That's the sort of people we are dealing with.

Now if we went with "development difference" we would be getting a lot further.



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29 Mar 2008, 10:19 pm

That's what I was going to say.

Disorder implies something needs to be cured. "Differences" can be treated if need be, but don't have to.



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30 Mar 2008, 7:04 am

Exactly. Funny what stigma certain words can carry. It's the same as 'suffer'... I hate reading that we 'suffer' from a 'disorder'. The only thing I ever suffer from is other people's prejudices.


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30 Mar 2008, 1:55 pm

LeKiwi wrote:
Exactly. Funny what stigma certain words can carry. It's the same as 'suffer'... I hate reading that we 'suffer' from a 'disorder'. The only thing I ever suffer from is other people's prejudices.

If there is only one thing I will agree with you on, this is it.


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30 Mar 2008, 1:59 pm

beau99 wrote:
LeKiwi wrote:
Exactly. Funny what stigma certain words can carry. It's the same as 'suffer'... I hate reading that we 'suffer' from a 'disorder'. The only thing I ever suffer from is other people's prejudices.

If there is only one thing I will agree with you on, this is it.


At last, common ground! ;)

(I'm sure there'll be others!)


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30 Mar 2008, 4:57 pm

LeKiwi wrote:
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LeKiwi wrote:
Exactly. Funny what stigma certain words can carry. It's the same as 'suffer'... I hate reading that we 'suffer' from a 'disorder'. The only thing I ever suffer from is other people's prejudices.

If there is only one thing I will agree with you on, this is it.


At last, common ground! ;)

(I'm sure there'll be others!)


Not likely beyond this! Sorry - but this looks like an exception.

And any prejudice you get because of your attitude to vaccines - bluntly you deserve.



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30 Mar 2008, 5:05 pm

*rolls eyes* Stop trolling. Seriously, people like you are no better than the schoolyard bullies that plagued my - and probably most people on here's - childhood. Thankfully, the more you speak badly of me, the more likely I am to do the opposite and prove you wrong. Gotta love those Aspergian traits eh.


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30 Mar 2008, 5:18 pm

I disagree - you are the troll when you talk about vaccines.



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30 Mar 2008, 5:19 pm

Why? Because I disagree with you?


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30 Mar 2008, 5:22 pm

Correction - because you disagree with the facts of public health and in the process show yourself to be a menace to said public health.