choosing not to have kids due to ASD risk (*my prospective as someone with ASD*)
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some people know autism runs in the family, and they don't hate autistic people, they have seen it be a truly debilitating contiton and don't want that for there kids, so they choose to go child free, or do a sarragot mother, or just adopt. and i've seen people who harp LITERALLY NON STOP about how debilitating autism is and woman's atonomy over pregnancy and things of the such, will turn around and call you a evil abilest bc you don't wanna risk autism. I remember seeing a video (from somebody WHO DID NOT have it, or at least he NEVER said he did or mention it) calling it eugenics, and just whole lot of other shit. I saw one guy who had no beef or hate in his words, explain how a close family member was autistic, and they weren't high functioning and it looked like he was almost in tears saying he didn't want that for his children. and people were not happy with him.
now, in my opinion, you should be allowed to not have kids, wether you don't want kids bc of autism, down syndrome or any other disability. that's your (and your partner if you have one) choice to have kids. i've also seen a lot of hypocrisy and fear mongering from the people who make the eugenics argument, they wouldn't care if I said I didn't wanna have kids due to them possibly inheriting my borderline personality disorder but if I said autism? I'm basically like a certain WW2 dictator. and they are the ones' posting about how horrible autisum is, and i get im not the autism spokes person, but a huge chunk of it genuinely seems like straight fearmongering or just shit for clot. my autism isn't really debilitating to me, and ik I'm lucky, I personally don't really view it as more than a diagnoses for me but I'm self-aware enough to know some people aren't as fortunate.
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canida
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in my opinion, eugenics is syestematic, not personal. if a couple chooses to go child free, that's not eugenics. it's eugenics if a sytem in power made it illegal for autistic people or people whom it runs in the family, to have children. or just straight up make it so they can't physically have children.
