Rethinking Autism: Autistics Speak

Very nice! I am the mom of an 11 yr old aspie...and I don't to "cure" him. There is NOTHING WRONG with him. He is just different. Just like someone who is black, asian, caucasian, indian etc. are different from each other. None of them have something WRONG. STOP trying to change my kid and love him for who he is!

Yetti0: Autism is not a new race! That is like saying schizophrenia is a "new race"
 As far as the correlation, look up what the definition of correlation is when it pertains to research... you are obviously poorly educated

You need to understand the difference between autism and schizophrenia to understand what Yetti0 is saying. One is a result of a psychological spectrum value, the other is a result of the triad of imbalances. It would be like saying neurotypical is a result of imbalance, not of genetic factors. It's confused and complicated, but can be easily simplified out with the right model to think of it.

If there is a cure for being asian, caucasion, black, native american then you will have a cure for autism. We are a new race of people... no link to vaccines.

If you do not want to know what caused Autism for you that is fine but for a woman such as myself that plans to have more children, I would like to know why there is such a DRAMATIC increase of people with autism.  As for the research that states that vaccines are NOT the cause, you really need to find out who is funding the research. At minimum, there is a definite correlation between the extreme increase of vaccines that we give children and the increase of children w/ autism.

MS Libramom.. I am a 58 yr old female aspie.. diagnosed only 2 yrs ago.. I have two friends on the spectrum who are refusing to have it officially diagnosed because of groups like Autism speaks... the DRAMATIC increase is elementary my dear MS Libramom..we older ones have not been diagnosed.. people are just now beginning to diagnose children so the numbers look like increasing when in reality..we are just accounting for all of us, which were not accounted for before...or is that too hard ?

There is ABSOLUTELY no correlation bettween vaccines and AUtism... UK and Swedish studies have proven it... its coincidence of the age... I never had vaccines and I am on the spectrum as was my mom, grandmother , aunts uncles and cousins..its genetic..

As a final note, someone that was representative of me would show up on video not making eye contact or smiling. They'd say they applied to hundreds of jobs with nobody ever calling back. That they wasted 4 perilous years at college. And that women make a joke of being with him, as if it's the worst thing imaginable and they should band together to prevent it. For the most part my people think the world hasn't delivered on the promises it made to us early on to make us obey.

If you really want to help autistics, support what I think is a standard ideal that has been long lost. That anyone who is willing to work at it should be able to earn a living wage and have sex. Not completely shut out of it and the mere existence of our efforts denied let alone are these efforts rewarded.
But right now your startup group is just roughing it at lesser issues than addressing this real problem. We don't want inclusion, we want sex partners and to get out of our parents' houses.

Try looking for fat, ugly girls when the bars are closing. If nobody else is drunk enough to want them, you might get lucky.