You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That they’ll never pay taxes or write poems. That they are, in essence, collateral damage.

I’d like to introduce you to my daughter.

  • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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    14 hours ago

    Right, but there are also plenty of people who just ride a bike and get by just fine. Four wheels may be typical, but a vehicle is not defined by having four wheels. And having four wheels doesn’t do you a ton of good when they’re all flat and misaligned.

    I don’t think you should have to balance a car on two wheels, and I’m sad that you do need to. But having “a car” in this analogy isn’t something that should be baseline necessary to be considered a human being.

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      10 hours ago

      You seem to be missing the point of my analogy. I don’t have a bicycle frame. I have a car frame but only two wheels

      If I had meant bicycle or motorcycle I would have used those words

      I chose the analogy that I did because it best illustrates the struggle that I feel internally watching other people operate and live their lives normal lives