Dear CCP,

My younger cousin of 2 years old has be diagnosed with Autism. My younger brother has Asperger's syndrome an autism spectrum disorder. Autism is on the rise statistically, 1 in 100 people are diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. We don't have any knowledge why these odds are increasing. I wanted to know with your great track record in charity if you can do an arum drive/plex drive for autism speaks. Maybe with the money generated we'll be that much closer to the answer. And maybe I will get a chance to have a meaningful conversation with my younger cousin when she gets older. This is all i want before the statistics climb even higher.

Enduring the pain of your family thinking of you as an object, not talking to you, and the difficulty of showing their love back to you puts a heavy toll on my heart. I showed my little brother dust and he played the hell out of it! He'd play it for 10 hours strait with no breaks, even forgetting to eat sometimes. When I finally pried the controller from his hands I had 9m SP and well over 25m isk. And every day since then he has asked if he could play the game. I would greatly appreciate if you considered doing this.

Thanks,
VK

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.)

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.

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.