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Do You Believe Autism Can Be 'Cured'?

Daniel

I keep coming across parents dangling bunches of herbs in front of parents saying "This is the cure to autism!" 

Every time I hear parents promoting the lie that they can cure autism I feel so hated and unwanted by this world, it is autism that makes me who I am, if it were not for my Dad's unconditional love giving me a sense of belonging I would probably be dead by now. 

It hurts and depresses me so much that parents so willfully hate their child's identity and think it needs to be 'cured'. It's disgraceful they so carelessly fall for lies and love to promote them, especially as it can increase the liklihood of suicide. 

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  • no, because its a personality disorder and part of personality.... even if you could, would you want to? .... it would mean destroying your personality and becoming a entirely different person. to the parent this means pretty much killing their child they know and replacing it with a new one, but yet that new one which is deemed neurotypical could yet still be bad, probably be worse, and less lovable, and not the child they see as theirs, and would probably hang out with  the wrong crowd and get into gang culture and take drugs.... so even if they could cure it by death of the persona and replacing with a carbon cut out standard persona, that standard persona will be worse behaved anyway and theyd want the old one back but yet any such cure would be a death and unreversable.

  • in reply to Caelus

    I don’t want a cure to autism, that’s why I feel so hated when people dangle fake cures in front of people, I see autism as part of my identity and I like it because of the diverse abilities it gives me.

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