Some of Us Like Being Autistic

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21 Nov 2007, 1:19 pm

I'm thinking more and more that we need to totally trash the whole scientific way of thinking. They make this system, science, and then use it for wrong things like psychology and sociology, where it shouldn't even be used. Those things are arts not sciences. I think the thing is people have gotten so attracted to systems and structures, and now their own systems are working against them.

>>>>>>This is a possible future. And if we don't start some campaign now to combat Autism Speaks, and educate the masses of who we are, the public will be perfectly ok with our genocide. Look at Katherine McCarron. People are defending her for killing her three-year-old autistic daughter. Personally, I don't think any level of stress merits murder.

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21 Nov 2007, 4:14 pm

If an autistic mother had an NT child and murdered it, who would defend her? This "watch video x before you judge her" crap makes me furious.

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21 Nov 2007, 6:00 pm

resist being diagnosed

adapt and hide in plain sight by learning the ways of the NT, keep yourself to yourself, resist being diagnosed. I did, and I excaped having others 'speak for me.'

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21 Nov 2007, 10:40 pm

I speak for myself even with a diagnosis, which I am fully open about and have no problem accepting. Even if that upsets other people.

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26 Nov 2007, 1:50 pm

Stepford Wives - I also think of most of the NT world like that. I REALLY hate the way so many movies and best-selling novels have such a conformist viewpoint - this poor girl/princess/tomboy/lesbian/trans-gendered boy was different, then she learned to wear the right clothes, and make-up, and act the right way, and say the right things, and even though she's still different, she's sooooo much happier now! In what way is she still different? How is she be her own person if she took up everyone else's standard?

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26 Nov 2007, 4:27 pm

ev8 wrote:

If an autistic mother had an NT child and murdered it, who would defend her? This "watch video x before you judge her" crap makes me furious.

I'm experimenting with that in my story. On an autistic planet, how will we treat the NT minority? Will they be genetically screened for and aborted, or will they be expected to confrom to autistic personality?

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28 Nov 2007, 1:18 pm

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Speaking of hiding it, I have recently given myself permission to rock gently in public, whenever I feel the need. The other day, I was sitting on a bench, waiting for the bus, and gently rocking. Two college girls soon joined me. I was deep in thought, and when I finally looked up, I could see the old, familiar look of bewilderment. The girl quickly looked at her friend, and then back at me. Finding this irritating, I went on ignoring them. I could feel this tension, as they continued to communicate silently about me. I wonder why rocking is so disturbing to them, and so pleasant to me. Perhaps I should have started disrobing? At least their consternation would then be justified, at least to me! :twisted:

I always rock when I'm drunk. Thing is, only my boyfriend knows I'm an aspie, and even he doesn't know much about it, so they all just assume it's me being reeeeally wasted. I'm never 'wasted', I don't really like being drunk at all. But it's a good excuse. "Ooh look, LeKiwi's swaying in the breeze inside her head again! How cute!"

As I'm a newbie here, can I just ask - what's Autism Speaks??

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28 Nov 2007, 3:56 pm

Redstar wrote:

I sent a letter to the newspaper in response to a grandmother of an autistic boy, after her comments on autism being an "insidious condition" offended me.

Always a good thing when we write letters to counter unsavory points of view. I am a fairly prolific letter writer myself. Maybe if ALL of us here at WP woud write letters in response to bad autism PR we could make a larger difference for ourselves.

Good job!

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28 Nov 2007, 9:24 pm

LeKiwi wrote:

As I'm a newbie here, can I just ask - what's Autism Speaks??

Autism Speaks are interested in a cure for Autism and Asperger's and think, with enough of your money, they will find it.

Merle

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29 Nov 2007, 9:36 pm

This reminds me of one of my favorite disney cartoons:

Flipping your fins you don't get too far...

...up where they walk, up where they run, up where they stay all day in the sun!
Wondering free, wish i could be, part of that world!

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01 Dec 2007, 12:16 am

hartzofspace wrote:

That's pretty funny :lol:

I never rock in public, but I still fidget etc quite a bit. I wish I could rock in public without people looking at me funny. I have some nose thing I've been doing since I was a kid, people have made fun of me for it on many occasions :roll:

Oh well.

Still, I rock quite a lot.. in secret :twisted:

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02 Dec 2007, 2:12 am

I think the people who make fun of anyone who appears the least bit different, are the ones who need to be cured.

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02 Dec 2007, 12:50 pm

I'm with you violet_yoshi. We are not the problem, so we do not need the cure.

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