I do not wish to be saved.

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Eh? Rett's isn't any worse than Autism, really, other than having a shortened lifespan, much like Down syndrome. Females with it are lucky due to the extra chromosome, but it's the males who're unlucky.

I don't know why someone would wish to terminate a child with Rett's, unless they somehow didn't want any child, whether normal or abnormal. The same with Autism and Down's, all of which are equally severe.

But in Autism, the actual autistic symptoms are far worse, as they're lifelong. Whereas the social deficits in Rett's tend to be outgrown in the early school years.

i would not mind being saved from normalcy. but reading through so many posts concerning the angst that aspies go through every day makes me not want to become one. my life is already too angsty without that added stress.

I don't see why one gets people standing for it but the other doesn't. What makes Autism more worthy of life than Rett's? Nothing.

I'm not talking of AS here, I'm talking of Profound Autism to run-of-the-mill Kanner's Autism, and both are equally or more severe than Rett's in most ways other than life expectancy and other physical symptoms.

Cerebral palsy by itself isn't any more or less worthy of life than Rett's either.

It's either all of us or none of us.

You can get people with Rett's who're smart. I haven't looked it up, but I'm betting more people with Autism have a subnormal IQ than those with Rett's. You can get normal people who're "dumb".

Why base something on intelligence? LFA, those who're "dumb", are just as worthy of life as those with HFA/"LFA" who're "smart".

Again, it's either all of us or none of us.

When you start picking and choosing, you start adding value to life, and then it's saying that one type is more valuable than another. This is morally unsound.

All right, this is like, feeling creepy. Making me shudder because I understand that as inhumane.

I can't see why people can think that if their position is 'morally unsound' that they are better than another by their personal standards and think they thus have the right to blame someone else of being more morally unsound.

That's like, oh I kill animals because it's fun and cool and I think they don't have the right to life like humans do because they're so low creatures, but I seriously think that people killing people is dead wrong because they all have equal right to live.

All right, so my autistic brain cannot wrap itself around that kind of social, emotional thinking.

Nevertheless it seriously disturbs me that people are willing to disrespect others so much that and willing to cast them aside without concern, claiming themselves superior due to one or several meaningless traits.

I thought life taught us all better than that, but this is alarming.

^Agrees with Sora.
Am pro cure [pro choice] and think there is equal worth to all the spectrum,choice where possible-not expected and forced by anyone else whether it's the Autism or Autistic community.
There is actually a member with Retts on here,her input on retts would be good in this thread,only Retts Autists should have the say on curing their condition.

And a possible life limiting condition isn't a reason to cure,it is probably more understandable having a life limiting condition rather than looking in.Watch the UK series 'born to be different',they were born with their disabilities,and most have life limiting ones but aren't reaching for a cure because of it.

Sora,

Determining a person's right to life based on disorders, superficial means, and other behaviours that aren't hurtful to others [based on choice] is morally unsound.

I'm 35 myself and I'm glad I was born before this "autism awareness age" even though I didn't think that way at first. I thought, "man, these kids today are lucky because they can get an early diagnosis and their problems can be improved upon much quicker than my problems ever were." But in a sense that's not a good thing because today's generation of AS kids will have less freedom to think for themselves and make their own decisions. Without these two things, it will be harder to make mistakes and learn from them. There will be too much parental intervention to try and make their children "normal" which is impossible, and the kids will wind up suffering for it.