Are those common attitudes towards people with cognitive disabilities or autism?
I came across a question here on Y!A about how people feel when they see someone with a cognitive disability or autism. I was shocked to see that almost all of the 22 people who had answered expressed either disgust or strong pity for people with those disabilities. Are those attitudes really this common? Do so many people really see people with cognitive disabilities or autism as some kind of subhumans or miserable beings with no purpose in life?
Here's a link to the question I'm talking about: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100605174936AAgNRBe
Pat2010-06-06T15:24:34Z
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I hope those attitudes are not common. I assume, correctly or incorrectly, that those who leave those kind of comments are people who are quite young and having fun saying mean things about issues they don't really know anything about. Unfortunately some of the people who are asking the questions are quite young too and take in the bad answers. If they are not young I think they are just showing that they are dumb and/or incredibly close minded. There are all kinds out here. Even some with disabilities who apparently think they are more disabled than everyone else. Oh please;)
I'm cognitively and developmentally disabled, and even my own family members have got a really nasty attitude towards me - not just the people back in Britain! As you can imagine, i hate being around other people, and i hate being in any sort of environment as well because i just feel really unsafe and unsettled just being around other human beings!
It's okay for all those normally functioning people without any brain disease or brain problem to show hatred towards the brain disabled and see us cognitively and developmentally disabled "retards" as a complete waste of space and a burden, but no one seems to understand or even care about how frustrating it is and how much of a real unusual constant struggle life is for autistics, for example; and no one even bothers to at least try to imagine or understand how much suffering these brain disabled people are going through. It's easy for all these neurotypicals to tell us autistics to stop dwelling on our condition, but how would they feel if they were victims of some devastating genetic brain disease which they were made to battle throughout life? So as an autistic, you can't blame me for feeling really depressed, miserable, and bitter about life because i feel that life has been very cruel to me and to others in my situation!
No human being on Earth should even be allowed to have something like autism or any other neurological brain disorder in the first place, because it's not very fair on them or their families. But at the same time, that doesn't mean that autistics and other brain disabled people should be treated like dirt by normal people or treated differently in the way human beings would expect to be treated.
This is way to deep of a subject to ask for help here. I would first talk to a preacher or counselor. I have always been a Christian, and a Methodist follower. God does not promise that we live perfect lives as Christians or non-Christians. And just because you don't believe in God, doesn't mean God does not exist. It just means that you choose to ignore him. Autism doesn't mean anything in the eyes of God. It means something in the eyes of man. God knows your soul perfectly, he knew you before you were born. He knows you 10 years from now, and in spite of your autism. He sends the Holy Spirit to speak to you and for you to speak with when you are struggling. Always know, Christians believe that Jesus is never far away, ESPECIALLY in times of struggle, like with Autism. I have an Autistic son, and God loves him very much and will watch over him always for me, whether I am there or not.
I'm really shocked as well, but don't let this get to you. Those ignorant people have no intelligence, they don't understand disabled people at all. They are retarded themselfs!
The thing that annoys me is that they complain about how things are going wrong for them, yet they have no idea what it's like to live with having a disability. It's a lot harder but many disabled people still live happy lives. It amazes me how they have the courage. Not many stupid ignorant people have that.
ive never seen any disgust for it, maybe soem pity,but its jsut natural that we will pity peopel we think are in a worse situation than we are its not an issue that autism suffers, it an issue that most humans suffer at some time, for some reason and yes, its very common they arenot seen as sub human or with no purpose, i think maybe your misinterpirting, as msot of those answers say clearly that his words are insulting so it seems you may be seeing the 1 or 2 troling answers rather than the real answers