steve (unregistered) wrote in #10
Too often autistic people are seen as disabled but some of them are far from it! People say einstein, newton and bob dylan may be autistic. It allows people to have an intense passions for a specific area so they can make leaps and bounds normal people would find impossible. Autistic these days are put in "Special Schools" and have to deal idiots like bob, the "Behavioural Expert ". I agree that if they make trouble in the sea life centre, they should be kicked out! but not to let them in is proper slack! I think without autistic people we would be far behind where we are now!!! If anything i believe you're autistic, how dare you even call those icons autistic. 

Oh, for goodness sake! Life's rich tapestry has already been mentioned by one contributor. Autistic children should be treated exactly the same as anybody else. How about excluding all people who have bunions, or are too beautiful, and will show others up, and giving them special days to visit.

I think that in ALL societies -- the beauty and grand drama of LIFE itself is that :

with ALL OUR FLAWS as individuals and humans -- which Nature provides along with our BEST qualities and potentials and our societies' best achievements --

comes the VARIETY of what WE ARE...and that includes our "burdens" of ourselves -- such as when we grow old and weak and decrepit and no longer able to be "independent" - - or when we , as children, DEPEND on society and those that care about us and love us - simply as part of existence itself -- and from which we SHOULD learn to IMPROVE our sense of compassion, RATHER than only DESIRE that which is "perfect" or "normal" or "accepted" or "useful".

or else -- we are nothing more than Savages pretending to be humans.

Imagine then:

IF the great Russian Composer Peter Ilyitch Tchaikowsky was DENIED opportunities as a composer BECAUSE "you are homosexual" -- would the "Tchaikowsky International Piano Competition" that produced many of the world's greatest artists - and IS the greatest symbol of Russia's well-deserved world-renown of great music performances be here TODAY?
one of the greatest song-writers in all of western music -- HUGO WOLF -- wrote the great majority of his incredible works for voice and piano - probing deeply into the Human Psyche that has NO match anywhere in song literature -

was written while HE was instutionalised in the Insane Asylum --

he was "abnormal" , in other words -- but he gave a GIFT of Artistic greatness for all history to learn from.

Autistic Children - in other words -- are just as special as any other human being..and when they go out to society -- THEIR experience of "normal society" is their ONLY chance to BE "part" of society, rather than be treated like prisoners that should be shunned because they are not "normal".