Yes, that is exactly how I would feel and that is also why I am so vehemently opposed to a cure for autism and say that if anyone cured me of my autism, I wouldn't be the same person.

I also say, some parents may wonder about whether they should tell their kids that they're autistic, and I give this as an example. I knew a man, who's now deceased, who was extremely racist, and after his mother died, his sister, who was not a racist, told him that their great-grandfather was Chinese. Okay, at the time he was born, the country was extremely xenophobic, but two things. I wonder if his mother had told him when he was a little kid that he had Chinese heritage, if he'd still be a racist, and I suspect that his mother, who was widowed for 16 years before she died, told his sister but told her not to tell him, and that she'd know if she did.

Okay, in this man's case, he became more racist after he found out. And I say, he chose to be that way.

I say that parents should tell their kids as soon as they know, that they're autistic.