Posted by alexandra_k on January 2, 2014, at 20:39:02
In reply to Re: school starts on monday » SLS, posted by alexandra_k on January 2, 2014, at 20:26:15
so...
i found some stuff yesterday...
one thing i found was a lecture from this guy who is the head of an autism organisation. he said that traditionally... there was a separation between autism organisations (focused on cause and prevention and cure) and other organisations... That disability organisations were focused on provision of services / improving quality of life.
the thing about disability...
is that they want to conceive of it more like race. differences that aren't to be discriminated against.
you don't try and cure a person of their race. of their handedness. of their sexual orientation.
how about their autism?
(this is not to say that assistive services aren't important or needed).
there was a speech. 'don't mourn for me'. maybe that was why i grew up feeling like i wished i was dead. maybe it was because people... it was kinda like they did wish i was dead. because i wasn't what... whatever it was they wanted me to be.
what do we do with people who are different?
we try and exterminate them.
genetic screens against.
oh.
there is an elective on disability and the media. yawn, i thought. but now...
i learned that a couple years ago there was publicity around some parent who killed her disabled kid. the public... well... the way the media portrayed it etc etc was that people understood that it must be hard for her to have raised a disabled kid. like that somehow excused it.
undercurrent... of stuff about how it is perhaps better to be dead than disabled.
some autism groups... are moving towards disability rights / provisions of service... moving away from thinking that autism is something that needs to be cured. the disability rights organisations aren't so fussed about focusing on a cure because they deal with hodge-podge. intellectual disability (for example) due to a diverse range of conditions with a diverse range of causes...
i've said before about how it makes me feel a little squeemish about the whole downs syndrome movement. e.g., that you shouldn't be allowed to discrinimate against a foetus (say) on the grounds of disability.
i guess it makes us all feel squeemish. which is why we don't want to look / see / know about / think on certain things.
so anyway... i guess this course is about that. maybe... i'll look into the timetable and see about changing from the drugs and society one. i found the book for that and i could read it over this weekend to satisfy my curiosity...
maybe i'll get more out of this one. personally.
i guess this (again) is why my supervisor told me to look to intellectual disability. which is... a mental illness. according to dsm.
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