expartebollmanisirrelevant posted this hard truth about autism acceptance that a lot of people don’t want to hear. The bottom line here if you want to be an ally to autistic people if that you have to just accept eccentric, or “weird” people. Just be respectful of everyone. This rule actually just works for being a good human in general.
Source: expartebollmanisirrelevant
Well, someday we’ll be able to fix things like that and Down Syndrome in-utero with gene therapy, so they’ll be able to have a good, proper quality of life. Also, most thirty-somethings who live with their parents do so because of capitalism, not “weirdness”.
This assumes that there’s anything to fix; which there isn’t. Autism tends to be a problem only because most people aren’t autistic; it’s not inherently debilitating, but rather made so by society’s lack of understanding of or catering for it. Where society caters for autism and autistic people, we’re perfectly happy and productive people who are entirely capable of leading relatively normal lives.
I’ve lost jobs and job opportunities for being autistic; and yet I’m a genius with 5 professional qualifications over 4 different fields. Which fact also speaks strongly of my work ethic. My autism neither defines nor limits me; it’s a challenge to deal with society’s lack of will to accept it, but that’s all.
Ironically, the old idea that everything unusual needs fixing… is one of the first things that we as a society need to fix.