Are those common attitudes towards people with cognitive disabilities or autism?

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.

That question should be reported.

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

I hate to say this but yes, even among family members.

I have an 18 year-old nephew who has autism and his "father" has absolutely nothing to do with his own son because of it. In fact, my sister divorced the s.o.b. because of the fact that she got tired of this "man" calling his own son "retarded" and "a wasted nut". I wish I could someday run across my former brother-in-law because I would love nothing more than to put my 14EEE foot up his backside.

BTW, my former brother-in-law has not been the only one to bad mouth my nephew. Both of my father and my second sister has also bad mouthed him which resulted in me getting many nasty fights with them because of it. There comments included "I would have had him institutionalized"; my 2nd sister made this comment, and "He should have been aborted"; my father made this comment. Yet, my second sister is a crackhead and my father is a "preacher". (rolling eyes)

Need I say more.

Edit: I reported the question but rather Yahoo deletes the question depends on Yahoo. If this question gets deleted than we know how Yahoo feels toward people with cognitive disabilities and if this question does not get deleted again we will know how Yahoo feel.

I think so, if there is no one in their life to have shown them how off they are in their perception. I think people are afraid of what they don't know and so it manifests in disgust or pity. The best lives are those who have been around disabled from early childhood. We have to teach by example every day that we can.

Yes.

Unfortunately, there are various Non-PWDs (Outsiders) that do harbor such attitudes towards PWDs,

To prove my point, I heard about a case of where a group-home was going to be put in a certain neighborhood and people that lived in the neighborhood were completely against the group-home and legally successfully fought and prevented the group-home being put in the neighborhood.

@ Mind in Motion...please please please STOP filing Autism and Mental Retardation together! They ARE VERY DIFFERENT!!!!! and it is insulting to me, as someone with Autism in my family to hear this. Asperger's in your case is filed on the Autism Spectrum because it is a social disorder along with other forms of Autism DESPITE the functionality of the disabled person!

Now to answer this question....people do taunt and stare and look onwards with disgust....HOWEVER...those of us involved with family or friends with Autism KNOW BETTER! I find the Autistic young people in my family to be blessings to us. They are so far beyond us and their intelligence is so VAST that it's no wonder they can't get to our level! They are so far passed all of us "normal" people!

People with autism have different strengts and weaknesses than NTs.

People who are disgusted are intolerant. Persons with autism are often victims of mobbing. That is very bad.