Someone called Kowalski says the idea of a cure for the disabling aspects of autism doesn't make sense, as she claims the disabling aspects are the "flipsides" of the amazing capabilities that "they" have. Well, that seems so convincing since she decided not to mention that the disabling aspects are concentrated in the autistics who are lower functioning, the same ones who get few of the benefits, while the ones on the spectrum who get the lion's share of the amazing capabilities, are often the ones who aren't saddled with the burden of the disabling aspects, and go on without impairments. So when it comes to an individual, the disabling aspects aren't inseparable from the capabilities. But across the spectrum, the flipsides are inherent.
This is another instance of an anti-cure slime disregarding and lying about the tremendous gap in functional level between the very high-functioning aspies and the similar, and the low-functioning. Some of them even pretend to be disgusted by the idea of involving hierarchy, by saying they don't like the hierarchy that the use of high and low functioning labels creates! Heeelllooo?! The hierarchy is already around, and has been around for a long time, the same hierarchy that you benefit from, and consequently support and defend with considerable effort! What do you think it's called the autistic SPECTRUM for? These phonies are not clueless about the unfair reality, and are basically trying to distract and confuse others from it and about it, to keep themselves from looking like the greedy elites that they really are!
We should have an autism convention and lock all of the high functioning phonies in rooms with feces smearing, non-verbal children with cameras trained on them to see how much they really want to celebrate the difference.
ReplyDeleteI vote for Clay Adams to spend a day locked up with my kid.
Yeah, and I'd like to see them endure just a few days being and living as the low functioning do.
ReplyDeleteAmazing capabilities? Is she insinuating we're all supposed to be Savants like Denis Leary said in his garbage book?
ReplyDeleteI've been trying to encourage them to get extra flu shots with thimerosal. It might throw a few of them over the edge into real autism.
ReplyDeleteJake, I still wonder what they really think sometimes. I think their version of things changes depending on whatever argument they try to lie about. It seems like when they're not worried about anyone revealing the problem of impairments, they're so willing to glorify themselves through talking of their amazing capabilities while not talking of impairments which they don't have, but when others are finding out the truth about the impairments on the spectrum, they pretend they also have to deal with them alongside their talents, as if the impairments are manageable.
ReplyDeleteWhere is this Kowalski statement that you are replying to?
ReplyDeletehttp://turnerandkowalski.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/kowalski-discovers-the-cure/#comment-561
ReplyDeleteI think Ari Ne'eman should be given a paid job of working in a group home with nonverbal autistics, cleaning up their feces, restraining them, and chasing after them when they elope. It would be his first paid job since he wants to give advice about autistics in the workplace, it is about time he actually had a real paid job.
ReplyDeleteI also think that Michelle Dawson, Morton Gernsbacher and Laurent Mottron should be forced to visit the parent of every autistic child who drowned or get run over by a car or a train to look them in the eye and say that autism isn't harmful.