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As an autist myself, I find these kind of comments quite offensive. It’s much like saying homosexuality is a disorder.

Neurotypical does not imply “normal” it only means prevalent - completely different.

Yes, autism sucks _in the contemporary environment_ - we are perhaps better suited for neanderthal / hunter gatherer environment.

However, implying that I should be “cured” for having no interest in NT dynamics and suffer by many of NT byproducts (e.g. noise) puts you up there with Mengle in my book.

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I would advise against it. Hanging your entire personality onto a single nail like it's a hat. Bad practice in general, and it goes double for when the nail you're trying to hang it on is a mental disorder.

If you admit that "autism sucks in the contemporary environment", then, it's pretty clear that there would be people that have it and would want to be rid of it - if only they had that option. Currently, the options they have are "seethe" and "cope" - not a good place to be in. This alone would be enough of reason to look for a cure.

And then there are all the people who lose the "autism lottery" - and end up on assisted living for the rest of their lives. The short straw is really short - you could try an "autism is not a disorder" speech on them, but, not all of them are capable of communicating.

This, too, would be a reason in itself to look for a cure to autism. Unfortunately, what was discovered so far makes an easy solution extremely unlikely.

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and there it is, as a true neuro-prevalent, labelling those who ware different as having a “mental disorder”

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