nessa238 wrote:
In my opinion women/people on forums want to be seen to be thinking and saying the right thing ie they'd be positive about disability. Out in the real world though I suspect more than a fair few of these women would have very different reactions to a child with a disability. In other words they are paying lip service to what they are expected to say in front of the group. In terms of disability you see a lot of this with NTs/people in general - they hide their prejudice when they think it will reflect badly on them in front of a group they want to remain well in with.
The real test of their opinions is how they react to people with disability when they think no one else is there to observe them.
People with Aspergers are less likely to conform in this way ie they will say exactly what they think regardless of how it makes them look but there will always be conformist types as well.
I tend to place people on the spectrum according to the extent of their conformity ie the more conformist = the more NT, the less conformist = the more autistic.
Actually the "conformist" view of the spectrum might be overly simplistic. It's more like how your autism affects your skill level, but even that can be hard to determine if you are young enough or have other disabilities.
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01 Oct 2012, 10:26 am
