Petition to the United Nations
18/11/2004View on timeline
While parents fight to obtain governmental support or make health insurance companies pay for the therapy, which is extremely expensive, neurodiversity advocates maintain that autism is not an illness and that attempts to cure it violate autistic rights (Baker 2011; Dawson 2004; Orsini 2009, 2012). The latter position may provide reasons for refusing to subsidize treatments, but the most adamant partisans of neurodiversity are willing to take the risk. For them, the search for therapies manifests denial and intolerance toward differences and enacts eugenic and genocidal policies; in 2004, some went as far as petitioning the United Nations for recognition as a “minority social group” that deserves protection against “discrimination” and “inhuman treatment” (Nelson 2004).
Read the statement below! You can also go to Amy Nelson's blog (last updated in 2005) or find her on Twitter.null
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