Friday, July 10, 2026 at 8:36 p.m.
There is a doctor. He looks at some people and goes "they are different ! I don't like it and I think nobody normal should be like them !" So now, he picks up a name, selects some "symptoms" and gets other doctors to share his opinion. Then, he gets it approved into the DSM. All over the country, doctors read the DSM and agree to share the same opinion about what is and is not a problem. Finally, the disease has been created. Every generation of doctors repeats what the previous one said. There might be a few changes as they try to philosophate on the best way to alienate people. "Different is bad and different must be removed" Dogma to the max. "Things are as they are because they are as they are and therefore must always stay as they are and anyone saying otherwise must be silenced"
I don't want a cure for autism. If a cure was to exist, it should not be used. (I would put an exception on the people who do not like how they are and want to change) Ideally, I would not even have autism as a condition, and I would like to be different in the same way everyone else is. I know I can't have that, so the next option would be to get the "disorder" part removed. I want autism to be something normal, to be encouraged. I am proud to be autistic. I don't want people to be sorry for us. I don't want people to see me as "handicapped". I don't want people to look at me and think I should try to hide what they don't like about me and force myself to imitate "normal" (better) people. I don't want the therapy that wants us to act "normal." Autists can have strengths and weaknesses. It's not all bad. Don't kill autism. We can't be wired the same way or be different in only "allowed" ways.