Directions

BEFORE TREATMENT

On Autism

I don't want to have autism anymore.  I want to be blind or deaf.  You don't even know when I have autism.  I would rather be blind or deaf, and then you could help me to find my way.

Mom, why didn't you tell God not to give me autism before I was born.  Why didn't you tell God to make me blind or deaf?  I couldn't even tell you that, because I wasn't even born.  What I wanted was a different disability.  Why can't I have a different disability?  I did not want to be born with autism!

I wanted to be born blind.  Just because you're blind doesn't mean you can't do great things.  It's not fair.  I want to be blind.  Being blind means you can't see well, but it doesn't mean you can't do great things.

All God does is randomly pick how people are born.  That's the trouble with random, you never know which way something will happen.  Even though people are born blind, they only bump into things once in every ten paces.

It can be very difficult for God to choose randomly who has a disability.  It can be a very hard balancing act.  You don't have to be able to see well because your physical being can mimic the movements of your body.

Being autistic is boring, because everything in you body works.  You need to keep every inch of you body.  It's boring!  I'm born with something that matters.  I suppose you think autism is the best thing ever created in the world because it turns everything into a proper reception.    

By Alex C., age 9

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