Scrubby McScrubscrub
Circle of Huskarl
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2012.09.26 22:07:00 -
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CCP don't do this.
I have asperger's syndrome, part of autism spectrum disorder, and when I hear about "curing" autism, I don't know what to think. I grew up antisocial, but I grew up happy. I fostered an early interest in video games which persists to this day, and started writing computer code at the age of ten. I quickly became obsessed with it to the point it was just about all I ever did. And so when the day finally came that I graduated college and was hired by a video game company it was the happiest day of my life. 12 years of a dream was finally realized and now, three years later, couldn't be happier.
Point is, I may still be socially challenged. I wish someone had helped me with this. But I don't regret the fact that I have autism; not one bit. Right now I'm happy with my life. If I hadn't had autism I might have been more social growing up. I might have had more friends and more girlfriends and been happy with that. But I was autistic, and it wasn't that I couldn't make friends (although it was hard) it was that I didn't want to. I was happy just sitting, writing code and dreaming up worlds that no one had ever seen before. And I still am. I'm happier today than I ever have been. So don't try to cure Autism CCP. We don't need it. Maybe the next great coder for your company might be autistic.
(for the record I support Autism speaks goal of offering help and support to parents but not their attempt to cure it.) |
Scrubby McScrubscrub
Circle of Huskarl
Minmatar Republic
48
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Posted - 2012.09.27 02:39:00 -
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VK deathslaer wrote:
I find this post disagreeable but your entitled to the opinion you arrived at. Autism Speaks is good for other things then finding a cure. And do you dislike families that have an autistic person? This is the message that i got from this post so please clarify.
Absolutely not. I obviously come from a family that raised an autistic child (me) and have great affection for them. Lord knows it wasn't easy for any of them. As I already said I support the goal of autism speaks to support families with autistic children but as far as the organization itself goes, that one point about "curing" autism to me is enough to throw everything else off.
When you talk about curing autism you're talking about eliminating a group of people who have been great painters, writers, coders, inventors, economists and thinkers. They're a group personally I'd like to see stick around.
EDIT: Deathslaer regarding your younger brother, (your cousin as well). Just because they aren't capable of showing emotion doesn't mean it isn't there. Autism doesn't make someone not a person, it just withdraws them into themselves, it doesn't mean your autistic family members don't love you.
A far as my family goes, every family and every person has problems, ours was no exception. Each of my Nueronormative siblings had their own ordeals to go through, teenagers tend to be that way. In the end my parents were proud of me. They wanted me to be happy, and they're happy that I'm happy, and that I achieved the happiness I wanted, not the "happiness" others tried to set for me. |