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23 Oct 2017, 10:53 pm

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But ASD can be a game changer if we can control it in a positive way like a few great humans have. It's kind of like trying to tame a purebred Arabian horse, awesome if you can but disastrous if you can't.



That is such a great analogy!! !


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23 Oct 2017, 11:05 pm

I like Temple Grandin's view on this topic:

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24 Oct 2017, 11:33 am

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What do you think the purpose of autism in current society is?

I like the HSP model that says those who are highly sensitive to sensory info (20% of people and animals) are the ones who keep watch, act as advisors and visionaries, while the not sensitive people go off to make war. I also like knowing that the role of an autistic person in many traditional cultures would be to be the healer or shaman.

What is our role now? Lie detectors to keep everyone else honest?

I don't think there is a collective higher purpose of autism, it's just one of many conditions, a role or purpose is individual.



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24 Oct 2017, 11:38 am

One has to create one's "higher purpose" for one's self, in my opinion.



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24 Oct 2017, 11:44 am

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I find it dull and completely void of imagination that one would identify with their intellectual capacities over their intuitive nature.

Speaking for myself, nothing inside me, intuitive or intellectual, drives me towards a feeling that there's any higher purpose behind autism. If I were more prone to wishful thinking, it might be otherwise. It's not that I have no imagination or have anything particularly dull about me, or that my head always rules my heart. Thus, I find your remarks rather odd, but as John Lennon said, "Whatever gets you through the night is allright."

TD I am merely putting forward a view that Einstein held dear. Do you find him odd too? I also have no desire to be governed by wishful thinking. My whole life is devoted to seeing things as they are, not as they appear or wish them to be.

Quaker, I stand by the view I expressed, and I'm tempted to argue further about it, but the OP has indicated that this "higher power" question is not what he wants to pursue on this thread (see quote below). I suggest you use a different channel such as a new thread if you would like to continue the debate on this interesting matter.
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Yes, let's take out the word "higher" because it has too many associations with it. I think I meant higher as in above the lowly place NTs and some NDs put AS. Evolutionary purpose is grand to think about, and I'm thankful someone did, but what I was wanting to hear from posing the question is what is your role in society, or even your job or family, that feels purposeful. Are you an animal person so you became a vet? Are you a pattern person and create brilliant music? I'm hung up right now on the irony that aspies are often described as community-minded instead of self-centered, yet we are often so isolated and lonely.



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Yes, let's take out the word "higher" because it has too many associations with it. I think I meant higher as in above the lowly place NTs and some NDs put AS. Evolutionary purpose is grand to think about, and I'm thankful someone did, but what I was wanting to hear from posing the question is what is your role in society, or even your job or family, that feels purposeful. Are you an animal person so you became a vet? Are you a pattern person and create brilliant music? I'm hung up right now on the irony that aspies are often described as community-minded instead of self-centered, yet we are often so isolated and lonely.

Ahh I missed that part. The closest I have to an answer is to be me as I am; I work in education with people who slipped through the cracks in the states education system, it can make a small difference in the world.