would you have rather have been downs, cerebal palsy, or....

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have muscular dystrophy, or non autistic mental retardation??

you are much luckier than you think in life....count your blessings

if anyone here has any one of those afflictions, please don't think i am being insensitive....this is an aspie/autism site, so i am comparing those afflictions with autism...and i would appreciate any feelings you might have with your afflictions

and if anyone who has autism along with any of those others, i say god bless you

no one is luckier,or worse off,it's definitely not judgeable by the label.

One lady am went to the same classes in special school with had quite obvious MR,but she went on to do voluntary work as a steward at the commonwealth games in manchester,and got a job out of it,she used to go all over the country as a steward for concerts,and did the major queen one a while back [as in the band queen,not the royalty queen].
She's worked in security as well,even though she used to steal from everyone at school.

Am have a CP-type condition affecting left side,[am say cp-type and not cp,as the hospital lost the records three times,whilst going through testing,had refused to be dragged in to redo it all again],it's mild and not a big thing,causes problems with the way am walk [stiff,jerky,wonky walk from left], and struggle with raised edges and stairs unless use other leg to go up each one first,almost all support staff am have know nothing about history with cp,only one found out this week when was wearing a new leg brace,they asked mum about it.
Point to mentioning this,is,CP like Autism and AS-differ a lot in experiences and severity,up until recently,another thing they all have in common is people with the most profound forms can have better quality of lives than people with weaker forms.
Wishing had another disability would be silly as they're just as unique and left to fate as ASDs are.
Try to deal with having autism/AS/PDDNOS/Retts,rather than wishing were something different as that'll never happen,can only make the most of what have got already.

i'd still rather be normal.

which i am not.

therefore, i am sad.

KOR is right.

Autism can be very mild - a person with mild autism/ Asperger's Syndrome might be able to have friends, have a family, get a job etc. Autism can also be very severe, some people with autism cannot take care of themelves and cannot communicate sufficiently in any way. Cerebal palsy varies even more - some people just walk funny and have mild problems, some forms are severe and cause problems with breathing and swallowing and cause the sufferer to die as a child.
As for Down's Syndrome, I've noticed a lot of people on here think that mental retardation and Down's Syndrome are always really bad. They can be, obviously, but according to the Down's Syndrome association, one in five with Down's are in paid employment.

It is silly to compare things really, and say who is worse off - there will always be people worse off than us. There are people living in very poor countries who do not have enough to eat and die from preventable, curable diseases. It does not do any good to compare, I don't think.

I wholeheartly agree with KOR as well, no one is luckier, i volunteer at a childrens specialized hospital in long term care unit ranging from severe MR, cerebral palsy, brain damage, down syndrome, severe autism, to everything you can think of, but none of them are easier or better off or luckier. I think each handicap has its problems and has its differculties no matter the severity and diagnosis.

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Being Normal Is Vastly Overrated

AS do have a few good sides, like the way someone with AS can truly enjoy living as a hermit.

How about we look at something that truly has no upside to it? I am transexual, this means I will end up changing my entire identity to live as who I should be, and give up almost everything in life at some point. But in the end, I have heard that people with this condition tend to appreciate their gender (after changing it) more than people born into it... Hmmm... I guess there is an upside. I am sure I could find an upside to all of those conditions as well, even if it is just a greater appreciation of what you do have. We as humans take a lot of stuff for granted, and don't realise how lucky we are to have what we have until we either have it taken from us, or suffer in some other way. I didn't choose to be born with any of the conditions I have, so instead of wishing they were something else, I attampt to live with them, and make the most out of my life while managing them. If I can't do that, then what point is there to living?

When we try dissociate ourselves from our afflictions, rather than learning to live with them, we create a world where we can only move backwards, and not forewards towards our end goal.

Hell no! Autism/Asperger's Syndrome are much cooler than those lame afflictions you speak of. I asked my brother about this once (who is nt) and he agreed that having autism would be far superior to having down syndrome (for example) because autism is extremely mysterious.
For example with autism you may magically start having magical mathematical prowess one day, whereas with down syndrome you're basically screwed.

If I had my choice I wouldn't even be a human. I'd be a dolphin and hope that I never had to see one. I would swim as far away from them as possible and hope they wouldn't have the technology to out distance me.

Why is it everyone thinks human is the species to be? Are they really that great?

Padium, you would have to limit where people can live and they are not gonna have that. You think people in the US would let the govt or anyone else push them off properties for animals? My plan calls for regional cities and everything else pretty much rural but no one is gonna go for it. They want to live where they want and they aren't going to have it any other way. If people really cared about animals, so many of them wouldn't be endangered and they would have places to live which they don't. I don't think it's likely they will in this profit driven world. It's profiteering that robs them of habitat.

Ambereyes, I think aquatic life of all kinds and birds are actually luckier in many cases, than humans. The only downside to being a bird is most of them don't make it out of the nest because their siblings push them out too early and they die but if one makes it out and goes on to fly it would be a cool existence so long as no one shoots it and it doesn't get eaten.