Well, if you must know, I'm also bothered by the awareness craze, but maybe that's just because I'm cynical.
But I can assure you that making the average ape walking down the street aware of something achieves nothing. And I'm especially baffled by the GOD DAMN RIBBONS things like "breast cancer awareness." Really? Is there someone who isn't aware that it exists? And if so, do you really want that person on your side. I don't.
I think the majority of kids who have been diagnosed as being "on the autism spectrum" are extremely unfortunate. I feel bad for them. Not because of their awful affliction, but because most of them should be left alone, but now they won't be. A little autism is a good thing, and I'm completely serious about that. That's where philosophy and creation and art and music come from - from people who can sit around doing nothing but focusing on an idea or a word or a problem. From everything I've read about him, I think it's pretty safe to say that Mozart was probably "autistic," and these doctors today would have "cured" him. Wouldn't that have been lovely.
If I was a kid now I am quite certain that doctors would have had their hands up my ass somehow (that's a metaphor, don't get a boner), and it may well have prevented me from becoming the charming, adorable moppet that I am today. I wouldn't have wanted that, but I wouldn't have had a choice.
It's all too much, this shit. If we're helping people who are extremely fucked up and way out there, well, that's nice. It's "helping" the others that worries me. What kind of society are we looking at in the future? I'll be dead soon, so I don't care, but what about the children? The precious children that Michael Jackson used to sing about and rape? What kind of world are they going to live in?
A Muslim one, yes, I know. I mean other than that.