WTF?

[conuly]

I can honestly state that I've never felt the temptation to compare autism to cancer. In fact, I've never felt the temptation to compare anything to cancer except, perhaps, cancer. Do I need to run through my list of why Autism Is Not Comprable To Cancer again? Because I will if I have to.

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[ancarett]

As a mother of an autistic child, I suppose the closest I come to her sentiment is the frustration of trying to explain my daughter's condition to others. Autism gets a lot more "name recognition" these days than it did when she was first on the path to diagnosis seven years ago. I've lost count of the number of times people have told me "there's nothing really wrong with her -- she's just spoiled" or the like. People at work sometimes tell me that I should just park my kid with the teenager across the street when they want to arrange a late-afternoon meeting at no notice -- it's what they'd do and they can't understand my problem.

But I can't imagine ever thinking I should want to change out the diagnosis, especially to something so terrible as cancer or any other condition that brings pain, disability and even death. That's incomprehensible thinking!