Autism being fatal
anonymous
September 26 2009, 14:19:03 UTC
"I am quite sure that if I had heard this ad as a literal youngster, I would have been quite convinced that I was going to die; that is what cancer and AIDS do to you, after all, and autism is supposed to be worse!" This is more true than you know. I often heard "autism awareness" ads when I was in elementary school and I got really scared about it being more common than cancer because at that point, I was just told about why I never met my grandmother on my mother's side: she died from breast cancer. The effect it had on me was a bad self-image combined with fear for my life that took years to recover from. It is just plain despicable that those assholes are allowed to do this!
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This is more true than you know. I often heard "autism awareness" ads when I was in elementary school and I got really scared about it being more common than cancer because at that point, I was just told about why I never met my grandmother on my mother's side: she died from breast cancer. The effect it had on me was a bad self-image combined with fear for my life that took years to recover from. It is just plain despicable that those assholes are allowed to do this!
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