Sorry, Wesley, but I know quite a few people these days with autism, and I wouldn't want them 'removed' or not to have existed in the first place. Yeesh!

I said, earlier on, that I realised autism has many different aspects, so I hoped that would be sufficient for folks to understand.
We are all different though, no matter how we arrive in this world, there is not one of us who is the same.

You know, your remark reminds me of a young woman I heard once, who was on the radio, giving an interview about her new book. She was born with Down's Syndrome, and of course, as you now know, they can 'eradicate' any Down's Syndrome baby these days, before it's born.
She was horrified at the thought that had her mother done that to her, then she'd have had no life at all.

She had done many things in her young life..but above all else, she was happy, despite the many obstacles she faced.

When my daughter was around 3 years old, she fell off a wall, whilst she was surrounded by people. I was sitting right beside her, it was only a comparitively low wall, and I had friends the other side and right in front of her, yet still...she managed to overbalance whilst sitting still...The noise from when her head hit the road was heard over the other side of the street, as the street was busy with people waiting for the village carnival to go through...EVERYONE thought she was dead....including myself, so when she cried, I didn't believe it.
I picked her up and ran home, and we took her straight to the hospital. We were lucky, she survived, intact...but if she hadn't, if she had been severely brain damaged, I'd have loved just as much.

When I had Josh I was 40 and I had to almost shout at the doctors that I did NOT want the Down's Syndrome tests, as they kept on and on and on at me.

My daughter is on the autistic circle somewhere, but it makes no difference to me at all. My brother is there too, even now realising that fact himself, as his own daughter now works in a home for autistic children recently opened in their village. My uncle, who has always lived alone. My best friend's son, with Aspergers, my daughter's friend, who even to this day at 23 still won't look you in the eye. Rosie's daughter, Daisy, who is a 24/7 lassie, needing constant care, but deeply loved by her mother and father, despite the terrible pressures and sense of loss...

You can start out with the most perfect child, but it doesn't always stay that way..as many parents know, be they the parents of the child with autism, or simply the parents whose child has something else happen to them in life.

The autism gene, along with the Down's Syndrome one, belongs to the people who have them, just as our own genes belong to us.

Each of us is different, and important...and we each have a right to be here..

I'm really sorry about your son, and for the unhappiness and sadness it's obviously caused, but in my opinion, the autism gene should stay right where it is...and the rest of us should be learning as much as we can about autism.