Does Autism Need to Be Cured?

An exploration of cure culture and it's relationship with Autistic culture.

For decades, conversations about an autism cure have framed Autistic people as problems to be solved. Society continues to rely on outdated stereotypes of autism; a mythical spectrum running from the “severely disabled” at one end to the quirky mathematician at the other. Despite years of advocacy from the Autistic community, many still believe that cur…