# 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:** 142
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2014, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-worthless-celebrity-anti-vaxer/683734/142 "2014-03-20T16:06:18Z")
> [@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](http://andrewsolomon.com/articles/defiantly-deaf/) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-worthless-celebrity-anti-vaxer/683734)._