Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Consequences

Attempting to get an autistic child to develop and learn through a greater and greater emphasis on acquiring social skills is like trying to get a blind person to develop and learn through a greater and greater emphasis on gaining eyesight, the tragedy made all the more poignant by the fact there are alternatives which serve everyone better. Attack autism and it attacks you back. Embrace autism and it embraces you back. Every parent, every advocate, every researcher who joins in the battle against autism does his or her part in contributing to the overall misery.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

So what? You think that people with autism should be exempt from learning social skills and be allowed to behave how they choose and everyone should put up with it? Social skills are vital for people to get along with each other in society. Insisting that a group should be allowed to do whatever they want helps no one and is unfair to those who have to suffer as a result of the poor behaviour and violence that unrestrained autistic behaviour provides