# Another Worthless Celebrity Anti-Vaxer **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 14, 2014, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-worthless-celebrity-anti-vaxer/683734 "2014-03-14T23:57:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 124
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-worthless-celebrity-anti-vaxer/683734/124 "2014-03-19T16:32:00Z")
> [@andros](#): > > And **BG** , if it is just reflexive, please avail yourself of the writings of the inestimable [Temple Grandin](http://www.templegrandin.com/). But here’s the nutshell: people whose brains work differently–autistic or autism spectrum–are not lesser. They are not damaged, and they are not diseased. Their brains just work differently. > > Also, it’s _Down_, not _Down’s_. Just to be persnickety. All of this. When a person has cancer, if you fight the cancer what remains is the person. If we could fight Alzheimer’s and reverse the damage, what would be left would be the original person. Suppose we can fight autism. What we’re left with afterwards is…this is a trick question. There is no non-autistic person inside that would be left over. Most autistic people and people with Down Syndrome will also tell you that they are grateful that, if they were given the chance, their parents did not terminate them in the womb. Observe how this might be different if, say, we could interview someone with Tay Sachs. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-worthless-celebrity-anti-vaxer/683734)._