This is me unleashing what has been inside me for months.
First, I'm just going to admit it: I have Asperger syndrome, and I do not want to be cured. In fact, I wouldn't take the cure even if it existed and I was offered a very large sum of money.
It absolutely disgusts me when people look at Autism and AS as a problem when in fact we owe much of what we have today to people with either of those disabilities. Comparing an Autistic to a person to a neurotypical is like comparing a person who speaks Japanese to a person who speaks Spanish. It absolutely disgusts me when people say that Asperger syndrome or Autism is a disease when it is most certainly not. To say that Autism (or anything similar) is a disease is the exact same thing as to say that having Chinese as your first language is a disease. I believe society is completely ignorant about what Autism actually is. It is not a disability, but rather a different "brain language".
I said we owe much of what we have today to those who probably had AS or something similar:
Einstein: theory of relativity, e=mc^2, etc.
Isaac Newton: laws of gravity and motion
Thomas Jefferson: writer of the Declaration of independence
There are more, but I've made my point.
Just imagine if the three figures above were neurotypical; they would not have had the extreme interests in what they did (Einstein & Newton for science, Jefferson for politics). We would not have come as far as we have. In fact, if it wasn't for Thomas Jefferson, the United States might have never existed.
I'm sure many of you with the same "brain language" as me agree with all of this.
First, I'm just going to admit it: I have Asperger syndrome, and I do not want to be cured. In fact, I wouldn't take the cure even if it existed and I was offered a very large sum of money.
It absolutely disgusts me when people look at Autism and AS as a problem when in fact we owe much of what we have today to people with either of those disabilities. Comparing an Autistic to a person to a neurotypical is like comparing a person who speaks Japanese to a person who speaks Spanish. It absolutely disgusts me when people say that Asperger syndrome or Autism is a disease when it is most certainly not. To say that Autism (or anything similar) is a disease is the exact same thing as to say that having Chinese as your first language is a disease. I believe society is completely ignorant about what Autism actually is. It is not a disability, but rather a different "brain language".
I said we owe much of what we have today to those who probably had AS or something similar:
Einstein: theory of relativity, e=mc^2, etc.
Isaac Newton: laws of gravity and motion
Thomas Jefferson: writer of the Declaration of independence
There are more, but I've made my point.
Just imagine if the three figures above were neurotypical; they would not have had the extreme interests in what they did (Einstein & Newton for science, Jefferson for politics). We would not have come as far as we have. In fact, if it wasn't for Thomas Jefferson, the United States might have never existed.
I'm sure many of you with the same "brain language" as me agree with all of this.
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remindes me of something I heard once that went something like "instead of looking at problems, look at the possibilities." I'm glad you are doing so well with it! God bless.
