the world would be worse without autistic people in it. human society would be far worse. you don't even realize how much you want and need us around. you have safe and accessible electricity in your home because of us.

i do have allistic loved ones in my life. y'all can be very grounding and soothing. but I KNOW you're not gonna be contributing to Discogs and MusicBrainz and someone's gotta

also, like, advancing medicine and science and leftist theory and... the list goes on

A world with a "cure for autism" or where they can prescreen and abort autistic kids in the womb would actually be a horrible dystopian world where that huge mistake cost humanity more than they ever realized. Infrastructure would begin to crumble here and there

Troves of culture and history would be lost forever without a generation of people who would archive that which NTs don't realize is important at the time

Computer software would stop working because there are dependencies maintained entirely by autistic volunteers for fun

A lot of deep research just wouldn't happen. A generation of people who would never write their generation's Das Kapital. Im not saying neurotypicals are never talented. But historically certain things tend to be done by people on the spectrum that NTs dismiss until they profited

I'm sure shit would suck if the allistics disappeared too. There's lots of stuff they're good at. my point is we need neurodevelopmental diversity. We have been a huge part of society, science, & culture until the NTs decided not long ago that we are a disease that must be cured

Autistic people invent and fuel entire genres of music. Major cultural works like Pokemon were made by autistic people and it's because of autistic people that 1000 years from now archaeologists and historians will be able to find detailed explanations of wtf pokemon are