2 thoughts on “The Undiscovered Country”

  1. In NAZI era Germany, and later in Austria, citizens determined to be undeserving or incapable of living a normal life were euthanized. About the only good thing you can say about the NAZIs is that what they did to others, they started off by doing it to themselves.

    Canada needs to explain where their program is headed, and how it is different from 1930’s Germany.

    ” While the concept of autism being a spectrum condition is considered important and useful today, explicit reliance on Hans Asperger’s work is now controversial. Hans Asperger worked with the Nazis during the Holocaust and his abhorrent descriptions of some autistic children as being less ‘worthwhile’ than others led to dozens of children being sent to a Nazi clinic, where they were murdered.

    There had previously been debate about how much Hans Asperger knew about what the Nazis were doing, and whether in fact his work had saved some autistic children from death. However, more recent research has discredited this narrative by showing that Hans Asperger was aware that he was sending children to their death at a Nazi ‘euthanasia’ clinic and had made statements in line with the Nazi regime’s murderous ideology of ‘racial purity’.”

    https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/what-is-autism/the-history-of-autism/asperger-syndrome

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