Autistic Lady Banned From Having Sex

In England, there was a recent case where a 29-year-old autistic woman was ordered by the court to stop having sex. It was found that she was mentally incompetent and lacked the capacity to give informed consent. The order was applied for by her mother who had to raise the four children she gave birth to that were products of homeless people she met on the street. At one point she was hospitalized in the psych ward where she tried to rape the male patients. She is also mentally retarded in addition to being autistic. I say this because this is an interesting dilemma when it comes to human rights. On the one hand, the right to have sex is guaranteed by the UN, so this might set a dangerous precedent when it comes to the rights of autistic people. On the other hand, everyone needs to be kept safe, and this person is essentially being protected from herself. There were other things the judge said that were quite puzzling. He did not rule that this lady could never get married, despite the fact that one needs to have sex to do so. His reasoning was that the woman could one day learn how to behave herself. However, he gave no provision that his current ruling could ever be lifted, which would defeat the whole purpose. Also, since she has been ruled to be incapable of giving consent, any man who has sex with her could be charged with statutory rape. There is only one other case like this in the history of England, but it involved a pedophile who had no known mental disabilities. The sad thing is, though, that if this lady had been cured of her autism, none of this would ever have happened. Neurodiversity needs to realize that autism is a bad disease, and stop lobbying against a cure in the face of cases like this. On a side note, I received an email from my good friend Jonathan Mitchell about autism-related tattoos. As I have previously stated, I desperately want a tattoo but cannot currently get one due to my fear of needles. Jonathan said that he still doesn't want a tattoo, but I do think that is a new and exciting way to spread autism awareness.