About.com is seeking your opinion on the Neurodiversity Movement. With the recent coverage of Ari Ne’eman and the Autism Self Advocacy Network (ASAN)in Newsweek Magazine much opposition has risen. About.com editor Lisa Jo Rudy explains, “my opinion, is that there is no such thing as “autism.” Instead, there are multiple “autisms,” each quite distinct. And there’s no way to know which individual is likely to do well or poorly when he or she is diagnosed. Nor is there any way to know what type of treatment, or how much of it, will be necessary or helpful.”
In my opinion Neurodiversity in its own definition aims to point out multiple levels of autism, each quite distinct. I’m using this because we need to point out the word diversity in neurodiversity. Every condition has unique symptoms and affects each person uniquely – Autism is no different from that.
Right now there are a wide variety of comments including:
I am an individual with autism who longs for a cure. I think neurodiversity is nothing but a scam. Their claim that if society accommodates autism then no cure is needed is certainly not true. Autism is still a disorder and the problems will be there. No way society can accommodate kids who attack others or who make untowards sexual advances. There was a recent article about an autistic man hitting a baby. Why should this behavior be accepted.
In the meantime I personally will exercise my own judgment about what is best for my son with Autistic Disorder and profound developmental delays. I will not seek counsel from Ari Ne’eman or any other adult with Aspergers Disorder or any high functioning adults with Autistic Disorder either. They do not share my son’s life realities and challenges.
Some parents may wish to relinquish their responsibilities as parents to an ideological movement of strangers who do not know their children. Not this Dad. Not now, not ever.
I think both sides can benefit from each other. Parents can learn from those who are adults, by asking how they came about with their own peace of mind.
I encourage you to voice your oppinion on the neurodiversity movement on about.com’s page, and also post your comments hear as well so communication can be fostered in an area where people will not be attacked. As always you can stay upto date on this and other pieces of Autism News in our custom newsfeed.
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“There is nothing about autism, ADHD, etc. that would specifically cause a person to molest a child. Just because some people in any given group do bad things, does not mean belonging to that group inherently means you’ll do bad things – if a white male molests a child, does that mean all white males have a terrible condition to be cured? No, that’s ridiculous – pedophilia is a SEPARATE CONDITION from being a WHITE MALE.””
Exactlamundo! And does not mean belonging in that group inherently means it’s OK to do bad things either!
People with ASD are no more likely to harass, molest, attack others than people without ASD are likely to harass, molest, attack others.
Some creeps are more likely to *make excuses for* people with ASD who do harass, molest, attack others than make excuses for people without ASD who do harass, molest, attack others. If *those creeps* get their way and ASD becomes a get-out-of-jail-free label for the few attacker-wannabes who have ASD, then those few will be more likely to attack (knowing they’ll be excused for it) and their victims will be blamed for the attacks (like “you asked for it, if you don’t like it you’re a neurotypical sheep imposing your mainstream values on us, if you didn’t want to be attacked you should have stayed out of our way, we can’t help it and it’s genocide against us to ask us to conform to your icky illogical “feelings”…”).
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