The 'resistance is futile' comment was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Borg collective from Star Trek (a soulless blob with no concept of the individual). It expresses an attitude I have, but was not intended to be prescriptive. Maybe if you and enough others resist, this kind of treatment won't be forced on all autistics. Let's face it, though, it will because most NTs don't value us.

The article you mentioned, The Charlie Rose program I referenced, and basically the direction of almost all modern medical research into autism is based on the ableist premise that autism is inherently awful, and must cause us all unspeakable suffering. Their goal is to introduce therapies that would be normative because they assume we all want to be normal. The fact is, they don't know what it will do to us, but as long as the treatments appear to make us more like them, they're sure that those treatments are helping us. This attitude has implications that are naturally troubling to many autistic people- especially to those autistic people who are able to have lives that they enjoy.

My hope is that whatever "breakthroughs" scientists make with regard to autism, that we autistic people are individually asked if we would like to receive the treatments they're offering; and that if some of us who are having a harder time avail ourselves of something that would provide us relief from some of the more troubling aspects of our autism (like sensory issues) that we wouldn't face criticism from sanctimonious autistics who might accuse us of not being proud of who we are. However, I'm afraid that this kind of treatment, if it became available, would be given to every 18 month old child they could identify before he/she had a chance to grow and learn who he/she was in his/her autism. That would be tragic, and like the proposed prenatal testing that would undoubtedly lead to an autistic genocide, it would rob individuals of their individuality, and it would rob the world of necessary diversity. That being said, some autistic people could be helped by treatments like that- maybe more than you think, given the cruelty of the neurotypical world. What I'm saying is that some of us autistic people have real problems just because of our autism. Plus, those ableist people are right when they think that being very autistic must be painful for some of us. After all, they make it so.

Not the thoughts you wanted, I'm sure, but they're my authentic autistic thoughts, nonetheless. I guess I'm pragmatic about the cure question, the way you're pragmatic about baseball. To me, baseball is a potentially perfect world, where the distance between bases is always the same. I need baseball to remain a bastion of decency, where I can meditate, and I'm disturbed when the human element creeps in and ruins it. The real world is ugly, and mean. I'd like it to be different, but all of humanity would have to change in order to make it half as equitable as the highly imperfect game of baseball. I just can't get worked up about what evil people will inevitably do to me anymore- not because I'm depressed- but because I'd spend my whole life angry and afraid. I leave all that to the politically-minded.