Autism's Drum Major Instinct

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Autism's Drum Major Instinct

Does the autism community mean serving one another and being great? You don't have to have a college degree to serve, don't need to spell right, be like Einstein and may just need compassion and the audacity to love. Some won't want to serve and be dispelled by these ideas.

If the instinct in the autism community is at times harming one another with words then it is not serving it is hurting. Pride can hurt especially when it wants to call things pity which are the truth. They want me to hide my truth maybe because they belong to a political belief that does not want to serve. Maybe they want to believe what is pity makes them look bad even though they are not me to feel bad for me in my place when I have the honor to speak the truth and to serve.

Serving means loving. When people hate love they are lost and are a disservice. If service is part of my and others instinct and they try to harm it how long before I and others speak to get them to stop? Why does extreme pride serve to dispell compassion and to create despondency when love is never that bitter.

Nathan Young

I think everybody has their own reasons to be involved with the autism community (assuming you mean the autism community in general) - no matter at which level.

I have my personal reasons to be involved and my compasionate reasons, but I can't speak for others at this point.

Nathan, I think people with autism are very different from each other. When you combine this with both our difficulties understanding how other people think and our tendency to become unreasonably attached to our own ideas--- it makes it very difficult for us to talk without hurting each other's feelings. Plus we have communicative difficulties that make conversation stressful for us.

Autism is both a disability and a difference. It is something I am proud of and something that causes me daily pain. It is something about which I would guess most of us have extremely complex emotions, and many of us found that overwhelming.

What Vector said. Everyone makes mistakes, autistic people most of all, and too much factionalizing can hurt us more than it helps. Over the years I've seen advocacy fail because of bruised egos and petty disagreements leading to people unwilling to work with each other towards goals they had in common, this has destroyed communities more than any philosophical disagreement over principles ever has. We are diverse, we can work together despite ideological issues if we try hard enough and are not deterred.

I can understand in part the responses in context but as I've said before there are the extremes in politics. Hearts (minds) of despondency, a resistance to chosen change by others when there is comfortable innovation for those that choose and bashing the so called normal people is not going to improve lives. I do not excuse myself for disabilities instead I enable my abilities. Responsibility begins with bothering to be responsible and sometimes that takes others being just as overcommitment to constructive service then as those whom seek to destroy proven movements that have created awareness and change.

On a day to day basis I do not think about myself as autism but just as I am. It is easier this way and I don't often wonder had I been born different or if I could be different then I am now. I think how can I simply achieve and if I cannot what is the compromise.