is it just me?

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or does the whole autism speaks cure thing seem like a stolen storyline.

NTs want a cure for autistic people so they won't be inconvenienced by their differences instead of learning to relate. Some autistic people want a cure, motivated by loneliness and pressure from NTs. Most autistic people do not want to be cured, just understood and given a place in society and not relegated to as subhuman. People behind the cure are not autistic but people who "deal with" autistic people (families, parents, etc) and so garner sympathy for a cause motivated by fear... when in reality simply giving birth to an autistic person does not mean you know how they think or feel. And the cure is not curing people with autism but curing the world of autistics.

now substitute NTs with general public and autism with mutant and you have... the plot to Xmen 3.

not that that is surprising since they used the Worthington Labs plotline to place the idea of "cure" via eradication in the spotlight.

Is there a reason why people would rather eliminate differences instead of realizing that the different people don't want to be cured, only treated better. Is it a lack of logic, or the idea that it is "too hard" to have to treat people with AS and autism like people. To maybe put forth a little bit of an effort.

I have spent my whole life trying to figure out what is "wrong with me" only to find out maybe nothing is "wrong with me" that I am just unique. And I am happy that I can join this forum and relate to you, even if I do not have AS and especially if I do (jury is still deliberating) .

And now even though I am the same person, because I am being evaluated with AS people are treating me differently. I need to fake normal, mentally become normal, or leave. Not because there is anything new about me, but only because maybe I will now understand why I am different, and be ok with it. But because I have a "label".

maybe I have more in common with my childhood superheroes than I ever knew.

I have people that tell me now that I am DXed that "you are OK, now, right?"

Merle

You're not the first to make that connection, and it is in some ways valid, but it seems a bit too self-aggrandizing to make ourselves out to be the X-Men.

But then, my nickname among some of my friends at college is Professor X.

Hi Shiggily, you seem to have a good attitude, and I feel you will be OK.

A label is just a label ... something attached ... not part of you. Use it to help explain things to others, don't let it drag you down.

Be honest and open, talk to your sister about it first, that way your mum will have nothing to threaten you with.

And if anyone condemns you for who or how you are, they are not worthy of your time.

if you are different toun you are wrong. If you are good, you will learn our ways and make them youw own. If you are evil you will keep yopur ways and so must be hunted down