In our society, it is the bright and articulate who find voice in the media, in schools, and in workplaces. They do that because their skill with words causes others to sit up and listen. When those articulate people express thoughts about the economy or how we run our schools, we do not knock them down by saying, Those are high-functioning views. People like my son don’t agree! The autism spectrum contains people of every intellectual level. Why is it that the bright and articulate autistics are attacked for possessing the ability to speak out about our shared autism? When I talk about therapies that are needed, I consistently advocate for research that will benefit people whose cognitive challenges seem very different from my own. I do that because I believe we have a societal duty to help all autistic people, not just some. That’s what community is about, folks. Attacking a community’s articulate members when they advocate for the group won’t help their less articulate brothers. It just hurts everyone. - John Elder Robison
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 15:11:21 +0000
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