What It’s Like to ‘Wake Up’ from Autism After Magnetic Stimulation

Post by AlgorithmicTime » Mon, Apr 18, 2016, 11:23 AM UTC

DanBC wrote: post #164

AlgorithmicTime wrote: post #72

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I'm going to come out and say that this is no different than a person born without arms claiming that they're not disabled, that they're not damaged. To claim we shouldn't cure autism because doing so would "reject neuro-atypicality as a valid state of being" (a typical non-statement) is as absurd as saying we shouldn't grow people new limbs (assuming we had the capability) because it's a rejection of amputeeism as a…

> I'm going to come out and say that this is no different than a person born without arms claiming that they're not disabled, that they're not damaged. You might want to look at the social model of disability, because there are people who do say this. For example, wheelchair using disability rights campaigners have often said that their wheelchairs are not the problem, but the lack of ramps in shops and workplaces is…

Post by DanBC » Mon, Apr 18, 2016, 6:25 PM UTC

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #170

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It's a simple concept. How can I help you understand it? It's created large amounts of social change. American disability law derives from it, for one example. Here's a cite from UK goverment mentioning the social model: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2010-to-2015-gove... > We encourage the use of the social model as a way of understanding disability. It says that disability is created by barriers in soci…

Of course I'm aware of it. But redefining well-known terms is a sign of groupthink, common among activist group. By pretending words mean a whole new thing, we can identify the in group, and humiliate the out group. I won't participate in that hallucination. A disability is when you have less ability than everybody else. We can mitigate that by addressing {everything you list above}.