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Why Do We Need a Cure?

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Topical these days is finding the "cause" of Autism with, one suspects, the goal of "curing" it or eradicating it. Would that make the world a better place?

How different is that from finding the cause and cure for being gay, being Black, being deaf, being anything other than white and "normal"? Why do the powers that be have such a desire to eliminate anything that is different from them? It's not new, of course; Eugenics has been around for quite some time.

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  • This question reminds me of X-Men 3: The Last Stand when they find a cure for mutants. In the film, there were some mutants that actively wanted the cure, though most found it abhorrent.

    With that in mind: Yeah, many of us Autistics (myself included) would probably find a cure to be an attack on our personal identity, but there would certainly be some that would gladly take it.

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  • This question reminds me of X-Men 3: The Last Stand when they find a cure for mutants. In the film, there were some mutants that actively wanted the cure, though most found it abhorrent.

    With that in mind: Yeah, many of us Autistics (myself included) would probably find a cure to be an attack on our personal identity, but there would certainly be some that would gladly take it.

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