Self-advocate: ‘Autistics don’t want to be cured’
April 2nd, 2008
From Chicagotribune.com:
Alexander Plank, a college student who is on the autism spectrum (he has Asperger’s syndrome), tells Chicago Tribune blogger Julie Deardorff that he opposes the whole idea of a “cure” for autism.
He believes parents of autistic children need to love them for who they are. It is not a “disease” he says. It is simply how these children are wired.
… He says one of the primary misconceptions perpetuated by the media, he says, is that “Autistics want to be cured.”
“Most autistics, in fact, do not want to be cured because they’ve already accepted autism as part of their personality, identity and lifestyle,” he wrote.
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