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5/31/2016 9:36:28 PM
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Because life is more than simply being useful. Art isn't useful, it doesn't sustain an economy or help medical advancement, yet people do it all the same.
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Three words. Terror Management Theory. Life is death.
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Is music not art?
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[quote]Because life is more than simply being useful.[/quote] Yes. Thank you. I don't need to be useful to my neighbor in order to justify my existence.
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It's inspiring, it's motivating.
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A severely disabled person can be inspiring too. Many can offer far brighter perspectives of the world than non-disabled people, for example.
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No they don't. I don't see how they can be inspiring. If they are high-functioning enough to be productive, awesome. However, accepting a disability is wrong. It should be cured, not accepted. This is coming as an autistic person. I don't want to be seen as normal, because I'm not. I want to be cured.
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As someone with a very limiting disability myself, the only way to live one's life to the fullest is to accept it and use it to become a better person. The idea that everything that's different is 'wrong' and must be cured is a very powerful one, but it is not the only way to look at things and it certainly shouldn't be something that one does to oneself. That's a very damaging thing to do. I'm not saying there shouldn't ever be cures to diseases or disabilities, but you can't live your life wishing something you can't change about yourself was different.
