pastafarian wrote:
Stop being wrong people, the generalisations are driving me nuts. People are people, its a fekkin spectrum.
People keep saying researchers are wrong, posters are wrong, Aspies are like this and that, cos they themselves are like this and that. There is no self-doubt.
People keep saying NTs are like this and that, cos they know NTs that are like this and that.
I just want people to understand each other. I want the world to understand autistics, for research to help people, for every to be loved, valued and respected. I want social justice.
How can progress happen, when intelligent people can be so certain their own experiences extrapolate to all Aspies and all NTs? Its breaking my heart. Its bad out there in the real world, its depressing to see it here.
It is so simple. People have good and bad traits - whether neuro-typicals or aspies. NTs and Aspies fit within spectra of traits. Think spectra. Talk spectra. Believe spectra. Argue spectra. Look for spectra. Confirm spectra.
Keep an open mind? Some folk simply can't read it when someone says thats not their experience. They can only read stuff that confirms their views, the rest goes out of focus. They have no self-doubt to drive them to learn a different picture.
I understand the bitterness towards NTs but its f***ing up the progress.
Its driving me nuts because it means people will never be happy, I want people to be happy. I need a holiday.
If you're trying to say you're pissed off with people here splitting Aspies and NTs up into completely opposite groups and adding more ''traits'' to Autism what are never even heard of and what are just as commin in neurotypicals as it is anybody, then I agree 100 percent with you.
Lately WP has been depressing me. It's made me feel more different to what I really am, and it's somehow worried me and has made me believe that nobody will ever like me, apart from family. In one of the posts I read a few months back, someone wrote ''you will always make people tut and sigh and turn you away, no matter how easy you think you can relate to people''. That had scared the s**t out of me, and I almost wanted to kill myself because of it.
But I've made myself stop believing all that s**t. What happens to one Aspie may not happen to another. I'm going to believe what I see, and not what I don't see. From now on, I'm only going to believe everything that is put in front of my eyes, because if I don't then I will be wondering and worrying for the rest of my life. People have always criticised me into looking on the bright side of life instead of spending my days whining and moping, and so this is what I'm trying to do.
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