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August, 2482, (c) TerraMedia

New Website Demands Tolerance for Neurological Differences

Neuroregressive Disorder (NRD) affects at least 1 in 100 people on Terra. These are people whose brain configuration was ideal for the human race before the last ice-age, where hunting, fighting and tribe-building led the human race to dominate the planet. In the modern world, of course, these tribal minds are woefully out of place and starting to demand acceptance.

People with NRD face a host of challenges in every day life. Their innate tribal deference to authority and propensity for violence is well known. Centuries ago, when they represented a majority of living humans, the race was almost made extinct by a permanent state of war. These people also have difficulty in using language to express their thoughts, resulting in imprecise or inaccurate speech which leaves out critical pieces of information. Their recall may be impaired, such that a book read 10 years ago may be entirely lost to them. Education becomes difficult as people with NRD may be unable to self-educate and require instead a simulation of their lost tribal world in order to learn. They also face difficulty in focussing on any one task long enough to produce anything.

Shunned by society and shut out of life's opportunities, people with NRDs even face possible extinction as parents selectively abort NRD children using genetic screening tools. People with NRDs have begun to speak out.

Max Shroeder founded the web site WrongCentury when he was seventeen years old. This is where people with NRDs come to share their experiences and make new friends. This site has seen membership explode over 4 years to 15,000 members, in contrast to their declining global population. "We were here first" is their website's tagline; they insist that many of their deficits are actually due to the impossible expectations of a modern society.

Their message and comradarie is uplifting, but one is left with a profound sadness for these people. They may indeed find acceptance and new opportunity in our modern world. However, as sure as the glaciers will come once again, as sure as the t-rex and the wooly mammouth fell from the earth - their place in this world and very reason-for-being will fade into oblivion.

I certainly hope the OP is right. The mercury militia is perhaps the biggest threat, but things are happening in our favour.

For example, a Maryland judge ruled that ASD's are genetic in throwing out one of the militia's heavy hitters as an expert witness (Mark Geier). Brilliant!

For another example - we have the Autism Omnibus. Three cases have been heard by the US Vaccine Court, and we should get at least one decision in the first half of 2008. If all three go the same way (against the petitioners I predict) a major precedent will have been set.

Even the mercury militia are starting to turn on their own - the Evidence of Harm group just kicked John Best to the gutter in the last couple of days! Serves him right!

Not to mention the studies into chromosome seven and sixteen providing hope for the genetic identity of the Spectrum to be found.

We have to keep punching though - and in the right places. Just because things look favourable doesn't mean we should relax and just let things fall whatever way they do.