When will the world ever wake up to the acceptance of cultural diversity? I am sick and tired of being a puzzle with arrogant know it alls searching for my missing puzzle piece. I know that we autistics (gee, the red misspelling highlighter even comes on when I refer to us in the plural) come in all varieties of gifts, talents, and challenges. But we are human beings and part of the human machine that makes the world progress. By wiping autism off of the globe, a new puzzle will be born, one depicting the earth with a missing puzzle piece. It will be broken, and they will wonder what happened. And then they will realize that it needed autistics to progress the earth along with the non-autistic population. But then it will be too late. They will have gotten rid of autism, that condition they perceived as a plague. But rather than killing, this plague made the earth advance in ways they were too arrogant to understand.
I understand there are a great many autistics incredibly challenged and in need of help. But I also understand there a great many of us autistics, many of which were diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, (gee, let's red highlight Asperger's as well) that progress the world.
Sorry, the bell just rang and school is out. I am heading home.
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"My journey has just begun."