The Wallpapering Society

This article was published in New York magazine a few days ago and is receiving a lot of attention.

Here it is: http://nymag.com/news/features/47225/

I think it is well researched and written. I enjoyed how the author compared his interviews among all the different opinions in the world of autism to watching Wimbledon, giving him a pain in the neck. I did not enjoy him calling severe autism “ghastly” but that criticism is well echoed in the comments and other referring blogs. The sensibility and objectiveness with which the whole of the article is constructed makes up for it, in my mind. It also made me realise that I honestly do not want to be known as an activist but rather a pacifist. It’s ugly out there… with the mercury/vaccine activists fighting the genetic cure activists and both of them in a war with the autism rights activists typing powerblog entries: I wish there was a simpler, more love-filled way to dissolve the sadness that society brings to autistics, and the ugly that autism seems to bring out in people without autism.

Adi

This view is Adi’s and not necessarily a reflection of opinions held by any other members of the Wallpapering Society.