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Society's View on Autism by ~AinuPrincess:iconAinuPrincess:

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©2007-2009 ~AinuPrincess
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Okay, after seeing the reviews on my more controversial anti-cure pic (that I've scrapped), I decided to make a more intelligent satire pic. Basically, if you learnt about the history of Eugenics & Social Darwinism, people use to think that if you were a white anglo-saxon with lots of money & so forth, you were more evolved & more likely to survive than anyone else. Here, as you can see in this pic, the Autistic child seems is at the very bottom--even under the young chimp--which reflects on how people today cruely see autism as something that makes you less human. I think there ideology is wrong.

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~xSenoritaLolitax Apr 11, 2007, 4:19:17 PM
Hmm. Interesting.

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~scraverX Apr 12, 2007, 1:23:08 AM
Yes.

Nicely executed thought path... you have to stop and think about the message.

Also an example of how things don't have to be complex to say a lot.

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~MissDookia Apr 16, 2007, 5:56:58 PM
*always thought some of the old black caricatures were cute, in a strange way even though the caricatures were made by racist southern white folks upset 'bout not being able to have black slaves no more....*

</weird random thought>

And I think "young chimpanzee" and "autistic child" might be equal to the curebie folks......they see their kids as uncontrollable hairy animals they must somehow tame to be their idealized version of a child.....not that much different from how the "negro" apparently was to the people in the south in the 1800's.


not sure how her comment will be taken....:hide:*

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~AinuPrincess Apr 16, 2007, 6:21:23 PM
In a sense, thats sort of the idea. It shows that people who think people with Autism are "lesser" than they are no better than the racist ideals of Social Darwinism back in the 1800s.
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~MissDookia Apr 17, 2007, 11:57:42 AM
Just learned about the Reconstruction in history class....dangit, the folks got more racist after they were forced to free their slaves!'

Yeah, I figured that out....ain't no way Apollo was ever looked at as inhuman, though. Is he to represent the normal white folks at the top or not?

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~AinuPrincess Apr 17, 2007, 1:07:16 PM
Pretty much. He's somewhat the "idealized" human.
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*KareBare Apr 19, 2007, 7:24:07 PM
My brother is autisic. But, I just think of him as a regular kid. Sometimes I forget that he is autisic

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*KareBare Apr 24, 2007, 5:08:13 PM
yea, he is high functioning, but he learns things VERY slowly.
he also likes to go up to random people and hug and kiss them

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