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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[wakasplat.livejournal.com]

Have you ever read Medical Research Funding (http://web.syr.edu/~jisincla/research.htm) by Jim Sinclair?

An excerpt:

Cystic fibrosis, cancer, Huntington's disease, and muscular dystrophy are diseases! They make people sick. They cause incredible amounts of suffering and misery, and they kill people. Of course NIH ought to fund research into these conditions!

Autism is not a disease. It does not make people sick, and it does not kill people. There are different opinions about how much suffering and misery autism causes. Some people do suffer a lot from it, while for others the suffering is caused primarily by other people, not by autism. But even at its most devastating, the people most directly affected by autism--those who are autistic--tend to report a great deal less suffering as a result of their condition than people with cystic fibrosis report as a result of theirs. Maybe cystic fibrosis research receives more funding than autism research because CYSTIC FIBROSIS IS A DEADLY DISEASE THAT MAKES PEOPLE SICK AND MISERABLE, AND THEN KILLS THEM!

[codeman38.livejournal.com]

Completely off-topic, but I wish Jim would use a different color scheme on his site. At least at my brightness and gamma settings, it's virtually unreadable.

[conuly]

I wish he wouldn't type everything in bold font. Large, bold font. Tres annoying.

[codeman38.livejournal.com]

(And yes, I do know about View → Page Style → No Style in Firefox... if it weren't for that, I'd be loading it into Lynx. Or doing Select All to highlight the text. Or copying and pasting it into a text editor. Or any one of a number of options...)