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love could not
DistinctionandDiscrimination,PursuingEconomic
endure the horrible
Rationality
ⓒEl
conditions that
cold parents gave
“Hans Asperger, the first person to do research on autism,
and turned their
wasaNazicollaborator.Hisjobwastoseparatechildrenwho
back on society,
wereworthyoflivingfromthosewhowerenot.TotheNazis,
which he believed
people who were not worthy of living were those who were
was the reason for
physically disabled, terminally ill, or mentally ill, including
ASD. Bettelheim,
autisticpeople.Evenjust80yearsago,autismwasconsidered
▲Bruno Bettelheim made an erroneous claim
aboutASDchildparents.
who had been in
an illness that made life not worthy of living.” As the line
a Nazi concentration camp, even alluded to parents of ASD
of the drama “Extraordinary Attorney Woo” shows, many
children as Nazis. He implied that such parents destroyed
mental illnesses including ASD were defined to distinguish
their children’s minds like what Nazis did to adults in
between superior and inferior for the purposes of eugenics.
concentration camps. On a famous TV show, he said, “No
The division came up in the process of pursuing an efficient
one takes care of the child who has an extreme disorder.
method for social integration and economic production in
Sometimes some think that it would be better if they were
a capitalist society. It was deemed irrational to improve or
dead,” causing the misunderstanding surrounding parents
newly make an institution for those with ASD, the minority,
of ASD children to start taking root without any factual
when institutions for education and medical treatment for
evidence. This made the public think that parents of ASD
non-ASDindividuals,themajority,werealreadyconstructed.
childrenwishedtheirchildrenweredead.
Times
TheseoutdatedviewsonASDarebeingdisprovedthrough
diverse neurological research, but the theory of Bettelheim
York
New
remains, with wrong perceptions of ASD remaining. Kim
ⓒThe
said, “The fact that we cannot blame parents for their
children having ASD is being scientifically verified, but in
a vast number of cases, the parents still psychologically feel
responsibility.”Heexplained,“Akindofsocialgeneinherited
via culture makes people think psychologically the same as
before, even though
ⓒtoday
they know that the
▲HansAspergersortedchildrenintonormalandabnormal.
reason for ASD is
not the parents’
“Even now, hundreds of people click the ‘like’ button on a
doing.” In this
comment that says, ‘It is a national loss if a medical student
situation where the
dies and an autistic person lives.’” As the line of the drama
main cause of ASD
“Extraordinary Attorney Woo” demonstrates, evaluating
is not known, the
humanworthfromtheviewofsocietyandeconomybrought
cultural tendency to
about a dichotomous division between disabled and non-
blame the parents
disabled and normal and abnormal. The 20th-century
persists.
French philosopher Michel Foucault observed in his book
“History of Madness” that society classified the madman
as one who needed treatment because rational and logical
▲The Times likened parents of ASD children
thinkinghadhardenedthestandardofhumansaftermodern
tocoldrefrigeration,whichispreposterous.
times. He further claimed that psychiatric hospitals and
psychopathology were made to distinguish madmen from
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