babybird wrote:
It's a good job we're not all alike innit
Mine was taken to an extreme though.
To a point I couldn't relate to either autistics whose whole fight is their niche as an ND (which people tend to believe are the privileged as an autistic), or their own ND-ness against wanting to conform (the types who either had no choice or 'wanting to live like a human').
Because their main focus was the social and physical external environment; former would control the physical environment in their favor (routines, sensory favorites, career and interest matching), latter would want to control themselves in favor of social environment (masking, studying humans, studying cultures).
Can't even relate anyone attempting "both". Can't relate to anyone failing at "both" either, because they tend to express aspirations of either/both.
My focus as an autistic is outside those perimeters for reasons outside my own neurodivergence.
And it worked out for me: it's like suspecting, pursuing and jailing the right suspect without any further doubt.
It's like fighting the right demons, the correct target, the right cause.
What other people thinks as privileged in autism: being able to mask, high IQ, getting therapy and medication for comorbidities, supportive environment, being closer to NT-like... Being able to 'gain' more...
Your typical "high functioning" model.
What it could be: no severe commodities to deal, masking as a choice, not needing therapy and medication, no executive dysfunction, being freer than NTs... Being able to lose unwanted crap including causes of mental illness...
Just "lower support" regardless of "severity".