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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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  • I hope it never is "cured". I don't want to be neurotypical.

    And some parents need to get that kids do not come made to order. Our job as parents is to love the child we've got for all that they are, not to make them into something different.

    Some folk just aren't grown up enough to have kids yet.

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  • I hope it never is "cured". I don't want to be neurotypical.

    And some parents need to get that kids do not come made to order. Our job as parents is to love the child we've got for all that they are, not to make them into something different.

    Some folk just aren't grown up enough to have kids yet.

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