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RFK Jr. set to launch disease registry tracking autistic people
(newrepublic.com)
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At this point I'm not really sure you understand autism at all. Because you keep treating it as a disease or illness when it's not. I might suggest you to read some books about the topic. Avoid those written by people claiming to have found a cure because they are full of bs.
You still don't understand that autism is a kind of brain development. If I think in a neurotypical way, I could say that you need to be cured, because, among your debilitating traits, it's the fact that you need to use rethoric and literary figures to relay your message (and implicit meanings, forcing others to read between the lines) instead of directly saying it with a clear message.
Tell me, can you cure a neurotypical inability to speak without implicit messages? Can you cure a neurotypical person at all so they become autistic?
I directly compared autism to other mental disorders. How is that implicit or unclear? The fact is there are autistic people that would have better lives if they weren't autistic. I don't really care what you want to call that, disorder, neurodivergence, being special. You could absolutely cause enough neurological changes that someone ends up on the spectrum, but that won't "cure" them because they weren't debilitated, by nature of the word. What you should do is stop acting like being autistic is just being different. Sometimes it is, sometimes an autistic person is beyond normal in a good way, and sometimes autism can ruin your life. It's the life ruining kind that should be treated.