This summed me up very well. I am a 37 year old woman, who has autism. People either ignored me or treated me worse than dirt. They expected me to be normal or else. And then we have people like Honey Boo Boo and her mother, and people are crazy about that and all of these celebrities making an a*s of themselves. People obviously think that's funny, but look at autism like it was the plague. But I am my own person. Even if there is a cure for autism someday in my lifetime, despite all of the negative things about it, I would turn down a cure. There are so many things that I am very good at, and that would probably go away if I am able to be cured. I am speaking on behalf of myself and anyone with autism or any other so called "imperfection according to the public." The only freaks are the ones who will not accept anything other than what they consider "normal."

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