No bullshit, even if vaccines did cause autism, they're still a net positive because of all the misery they prevent. And it ain't like autistic folks are all at the severe end of things anyway.

The logic here is that "An autistic child is better than a dead child". If that what these nutters need in order to properly vaccinate their brats then I am all for it.

So it is possible to be a moron and a good mother at the same time?

There are afflictions that I would prefer to die than to have, but they’re things like symptomatic rabies. There are diseases that a fetus I was carrying might have that are so awful I would prefer to have an abortion than to give birth, but they’re things like Tay-Sachs. Both of those are 90+% fatal and the person suffers mentally and physically the whole time.

Autism is not like that, even in the most extreme cases.

Autism isnt even a disease its just different wiring for the brain. As someone who is autistic the main problem with it is feeling of separation from majority of population.

To me, some of the "normal" people feel like they are the broken ones and its difficult to me to understand how others think. Some people freak out over minor and pointless things and think some really bad things are okay, seem to lack empathy in some things, cant think logically about somethings, are driven by emotions and sentimentality way too much yet insist on logic and not understand that emotions are a thing that affects things on other things. And ego is like holy calf that must be worshipped for so many.

Though i'm not sure if all this is even related to me being autistic or just me being different in some otherway.

That’s part of why it’s not like the others :)

I had honestly thought that diseases had to involve an external factor, so I planned to call tay-sachs a disorder, but when I checked to make sure that it was basically 100% fatal as I remembered (it’s not, but only because they’ve determined that the juvenile and late onset variants are actually the same disease), it was listed as a disease.

It seems to me like the only functional difference between “disease” and “disorder” (with which I also have a nit to pick, because in most cases it’s a a different ordering of the mind, not inherently a worse one) is whether it primarily affects your body or your mind/communication/socialization. I don’t think there are any of the latter that a fetus I was carrying could have, which would make me prefer an abortion to giving birth, though.