Another Worthless Celebrity Anti-Vaxer

[Maeglin]

@Deeg

At the risk of raining scorn on my head, this reasoning seems awfully close to the Deaf community who want deafness to be viewed no differently from, say, being a red-head to the point where they opt out of procedures for their children that could repair their hearing.

I understand the rationale–people who are autistic (and those who love them) don’t want to be viewed as broken, especially those who are on the higher-functional scale. But it is a disorder; some people with autism will never be able to live on their own. If we ever find something that reduces autism then we should adopt it.

It is. If this seems completely alien, try reading Andrew Solomon’s Defiantly Deaf: Defiantly Deaf | Andrew Solomon