What is the most important issue facing autistic people?

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TheygoMew
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19 Feb 2012, 3:46 pm

Can vouch for discrimination and the hands on example.



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19 Feb 2012, 3:57 pm

I think awareness is the most important. Most people seem to have a very stereotyped view of Autism.



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19 Feb 2012, 4:17 pm

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19 Feb 2012, 4:24 pm

ictus75 wrote:
Discrimination. Measuring Aspies by NT standards and not respecting Aspies for who and what they are/can contribute. TalusJumper's son is a great example of that - because he has difficulty reading, he is disregarded, yet he has great 'hands on' capabilities.



Written Tests are HOW NTs(who are liable) measure competence and weed out potential candidates. Also, credentials gain through written tests are a way in which NTS bring respectability and prestige to their particular profession or trade. I know quite a few NTs who had superb hands on skills BUT could not pass qualifying written exams.

In my humble opinion, skilled trades and certain types of professions lost a great deal of untapped talent when they went from a hands on approach (apprentice to journeyman training) to placing enormous weight on written tests.

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19 Feb 2012, 5:22 pm

Callista wrote:
What do you feel is the most important issue facing autistic people, as a whole--as a community? That means the whole autistic community, by the way; autistics, diagnosed and undiagnosed; people who are close to the spectrum but not quite on it; family members and spouses and friends.

That's it, the community itself is heterogeneous. Different people with different problems. What may be good for a subgroup may not be helpful for the other.

One important aspect of having a better future is understanding these differences within the community and accept it both outside and inside of it.

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What should we be trying to change about the world and about ourselves as a community? What's important; what are we overlooking, and what are we spending too much effort on? What's good about being part of an online (and possibly offline) autistic community, and what should change?

Again, heterogeneity. Lots of misunderstanding could be attributed to it. Asperger's pride, why some people with autistic disorder feel left out, why different groups with different strengths at life skills often don't understand the other group's difficulties. I'm not even sure if there are groups, there might be only individuals.

Dynamics between the 'autistic world' and 'normal world' is like politics. It surely will have the most impact on the community in the future. However, autistic people shouldn't forget that they are the minority, and as a result, communication with the majority would be practiced on the basis of NT standards, a foreign language, you might say. Communications and politics are not the strongest points of autistic people, so there's a risk here.