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The reality of how cure culture interrupts the neurodiversity movement

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David Gray-Hammond
Mar 31, 2023
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Scene from X-Men

Rogue enters and says "Is it true professor, they can cure us?"

Professor X answers "Yes, Rogue. It appears to be true"

Storm intersects "No, Professor. They can't cure us. You wanna know why? Because there's nothing to cure, nothing wrong with you. Or any of us, for that matter".
Scene from X-men

The above scene is quite poinient to the topic of this article. Here we have Rogue, a mutant who kills everything she touches, and Storm, who can control the weather.

One might be forgiven for not necessarily seeing the connection between this and Autistic experience, but it is in fact a very good allegory for the battle between the norma…

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