The very act of 'doing away with' the Asperger's diagnosis demonstrates the willful 'doing away with' our personalities, preference and voices - we are subsumed into a 'spectrum' of socially undesirable persons, classed with psychopaths, but grudgingly said to have some usefulness to society, which is a very narrow and easily removed permission to exist.
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
“It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia.”
_Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983
“The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as
an individual you have to surrender for the sake of group thought. And when you
suspend your individual beauty you also give up a lot of your humanity. You
will do things in the name of a group that you would never do on your own.
Injuring, hurting, killing, drinking are all part of it, because you've lost
your identity, because you now owe your allegiance to this thing that's bigger
than you are and that controls you.” _George Carlin, Last Words
For those who would have Asperger
children 'ape' so-called normal behavior: "Imitation cannot go above its
model.”
“The
imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it
was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something
else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another
man's.” _Ralph Waldo Emerson, Divinity School Address
And from old school psychology and psychiatry: “Ultimately everything
depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally short-sighted age
thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations...” _C.G. Jung, The Undiscovered Self, 1875-1961
“The liberty of the individual is no gift of
civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.” Sigmund Freud, 1846-1949
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