its basically hell to be masking/invisible disability in this society because people bring up eugenics and ableism in small talk nowadays. its to the point where i think i will openly reveal my medical status to everybody i come across so that i will be spared of hearing about how they think people with disabilities dont deserve to live
As someone who is autistic, it’s genuinely so sad to see not only neurotypical people advocating for eugenics but reading autistic people talk about how they would abort their child if they were autistic. I look at my life and it hasn’t been easy, but I’ve managed to overcome so many obstacles, I feel my life has meaning. I see so much of myself in many brilliant revolutionaries.
sadly, because of the nature of autism to mask intensely, we tend to internalize ableism even more than others.
im in the boat of having a very bad permanent disability that makes it difficult for me to move. theres a pretty high chance id pass it on to my kids and theyd be in similar pain, perhaps less, perhaps more. like i get that its eugenics to say i wont have kids but itd kill me to see my kids dealing with the same things i had to deal with. obviously ive been able to find happiness in my life and do not want to die anytime soon. there were points in my life where i was close to death and if the dice were rolled a different way, i would be and it would have been a tragic thing you read on a newspaper about how some 9 yr old died today.
im also kind of the opinion that genetics is overrated anyways, i intend on adopting. almost everyone is identical genetically aside from the occasional mutation, doesnt matter if the lineage gets passed on, the only lineage is the human lineage. and the human lineage has built in caretakers and adopters into our genetics. only thing that could convince me to have kids is if they had some sort of way to remove my genetic disorder from the fetus.
…how would you abort a child if it takes testing to determine autism? Abortion is a pre-birth thing.
It’s in regards to a hypothetical " if there was a test to determine a child would be autistic would you take it"
Thank you for the context.
Or there are the Nuero-divergent Supremacists who go on and on about how they have super powers and how NT are sub human.