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I've stopped being an autism supremacist.

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07 Aug 2011, 12:56 pm

androbot2084 wrote:

I remember once having doubts about my genius so I told a coworker that perhaps I did not deserve my certificate of recogniton from the Central Medical Services Department at the hospital I worked at. To get this award I beat out a team of over a dozen medical professionals including Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, and Assistive Technology Specialists in spite of the fact that I had no formal medical training. My coworker said that it was very big of me to admit the fact that I did not deserve this award.

3 months after making my confession I was slammed with a horrible performance evalution, publically humiliated and denounced by the Doctor in charge and by my peers and then fired from my position with a bad reference so that I would never be able to work in the medical field again. I was also ordered by management to go through psychiatric evaluation to determine the nature of my mental illness.

OK well that is why you should not tell just anyone when you have such doubts...why would you want to say you don't deserve something you earned if you were not even sure you did not actually deserve it? Either your co-worker was taking advantage of you or they honestly thought maybe you were admitting to having cheated to get the award or something.

Also I am not sure how this is indicates that autism supremacy is a better path then less extreme advocacy.

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07 Aug 2011, 7:17 pm

androbot2084 wrote:

The autistic genius Albert Einstein was quoted as saying "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind cannot understand it when a man does not mindlessly submit to inherited prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. "

I suppose I should be so glad that you have finally found love and acceptance from the world by renouncing your autistic genius but what a horrible price to pay.

I have not renounced my genius I just thought the way I put it out wasn't smart. I think I was too direct and aggressive in the autism supremacist approach.

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07 Aug 2011, 7:27 pm

aspie48 wrote:

androbot2084 wrote:

I have not renounced my genius I just thought the way I put it out wasn't smart. I think I was too direct and aggressive in the autism supremacist approach.

If anything that is using your genius abilites....I am sure there is much you can do to help end some of the discrimination directed at people with autism or maybe even other conditions and without the agressive approach it could very well be more effective.

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07 Aug 2011, 7:33 pm

Creative diplomacy seem to work but that is to generalized to explain. The idea is to get along but to do so while creating opportunity. That's how I do it.

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07 Aug 2011, 11:36 pm

aspie48 wrote:

i deleted my site and stuff. It was making my depression worse thinking that way anyway. I still think the world is very unfair and full of predators, that won't change. I just think my ideas were probably going to do me in at some point anyway. i have always feared NTs because of bullying and isolation in the past but i will keep my opinion to myself in the future. i can see that i am making a lot of enemies on here anyway. i might still be interested in different kinds of advocacy in the future.

Is the bolded part why you're giving up on your ideas?
I don't agree with them, but I don't agree that you should give them up just because people dislike you for them. You should give them up because you've found them to be incorrect, or because someone has proven to your satisfaction that they are incorrect.

For the record, I strongly disagree with autism supremacy, but I don't dislike you personally, and I'm sure that's true of most of the people who are opposing you.

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08 Aug 2011, 3:24 am

Young sir, every single opressed minority has a period of hatred towards a group that has treated them wrongly. Some do not escape it. I am thankful that you have. I hope that you understand that you should judge people as individuals and not as groups as I judged your actions, that have now changed, and not an individual. Also, prove excellence before proclaiming it.

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08 Aug 2011, 5:30 am

I favor an approach of mutual support between autistic people that goes beyond the boundaries of any abstract ideal such as "autism supremacy" or "neurodiversity." While it is perfectly within one's right to believe in such ideals, it is wrong to impose them on others and profess to speak for others through these mediums.

I did not necessarily disagree with many of your (aspie48's) aims, only the supremacist ideal and the stigma that autistic people are superior to everyone else that goes along with it.

I myself went through a phase where I thought myself superior to everyone else. Everyone appeared to me as if they were stupid sheep copying one another and following social rules without being able to think for themselves. But this was before my diagnosis, but had it been after I may have fallen into the same trap and thought that it was my AUTISM that made me superior and may have followed the same thought pattern that aspie48 has and I'm sure many others also have. (It should be added here that I no longer think that I'm superior to anyone, this was back in my teenage years.)

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08 Aug 2011, 8:07 pm

BTW, your signature still has your website link.

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13 Aug 2011, 4:26 pm

Good for you. I don't think it's wortth tthe anxiety

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16 Aug 2011, 1:09 pm

aspie48 wrote:

i deleted my site and stuff. It was making my depression worse thinking that way anyway. I still think the world is very unfair and full of predators, that won't change. I just think my ideas were probably going to do me in at some point anyway. i have always feared NTs because of bullying and isolation in the past but i will keep my opinion to myself in the future. i can see that i am making a lot of enemies on here anyway. i might still be interested in different kinds of advocacy in the future.

Good... everyone has to be fine with himself. The most important thing is that you like the person you are. If you behave the way you think is right, you never have to be ashamed of who you are. There's not autistic supremacy and there's nothing wrong in being autistic.

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