Observation of mine regarding the autsim rights movement...

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10 Dec 2006, 1:29 pm

I don't know if anyone has said anything similar before, but I noticed a striking similarity of the idea behind the autsim rights movement and the fictional debate in X-Men over mutant rights. Now I know that X-men was set up to reflect various social issues regarding human rights, but the arguments on both sides (Autsim is an epidemic vs. "We Don't Need a Cure") seem unusually reminiscent of the movement for autism rights, even more so than other liberation/rights movements.



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10 Dec 2006, 1:34 pm

Have you ever tried not being autistic?



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10 Dec 2006, 1:40 pm

Remnant wrote:
Have you ever tried not being autistic?


No, I haven't... Why do you ask?



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10 Dec 2006, 1:50 pm

Frankly, the world HAS to be more accomodating to autistics! It HAS to be! If it isn't, even non autistics will suffer. They FINALLY did something with the cigarettes, and particle board. FINALLY! NOW if they could handle alarms, lights, and personal space(which USED to be part of good manners), then I'm all set as far as environment. If they could bring back the PROVEN SUPERIOR AND MORE ECONOMICAL programmed instruction and student based teaching(which USED to be the norm), the educational system will take care of itself. Even the LFAs will do better!

AFTER they do THAT, and help out EVERYONE, maybe they can try to find a way to get rid of genetic maladies that will affect SOME in the future. Oh, and MOST of them AREN'T autistic!

I'm not asking for much. Just a few laws, enforcement, and MAYBE a few 100 million. They will probably end up SAVING more than the spend!

After THAT they can throw a few 100 million at the genetic problem. Again, NOT autism, just problems.

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10 Dec 2006, 3:00 pm

Main wrote:
Remnant wrote:
Have you ever tried not being autistic?


No, I haven't... Why do you ask?


That's a quote from the X-men movie, where Bobbie Richter's mother asks him "Have you ever tried not being a mutant?"



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10 Dec 2006, 3:04 pm

Actually, I think we've all tried not being autistic before, like when we pretend to be NTs so we can make friends with NTs. However, it usually doesn't work so well for us.



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10 Dec 2006, 3:04 pm

Sensitivity to lights, to violations of personal space, to irritating chemicals--what if we are born normal and the rest are born with a certain numbness?



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10 Dec 2006, 3:57 pm

Dart wrote:
Actually, I think we've all tried not being autistic before, like when we pretend to be NTs so we can make friends with NTs. However, it usually doesn't work so well for us.


I can def relate to that. Last year I had a roomate who is what u might call preppy. Well, I didn't have any friends, it being my first year of college, and no idea really how to meet new people, so since my roomate was close at least in proximity to me, i decided to be friends with her and her friends. They were as NT as they come. So i copied them as best i could, sounds silly now, but that's what i did, tried to act like them and be normal. Didn't work out so well when it became apparent how different i was, and the problems that i have. I wanted to be alone often and since i didn't go out w/ them as much as they all hung out together as a group, i got left behind in the dust. They read me as not liking them bc i didn't want to go out that much and when they all came and hung out in my room i really just wanted them to leave so i could have some quiet w/o all the confusing noise and conversation that i couldn't follow. So no matter how hard i tried, i cannot be NT, i don't believe it is possible, bc my true self is always there, and even though i have heard the advice to copy others in a social environment to try to socialize better, it is only possible for so long before i can't take it anymore. I get tired of being confused around others.



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10 Dec 2006, 5:01 pm

Remnant wrote:
Sensitivity to lights, to violations of personal space, to irritating chemicals--what if we are born normal and the rest are born with a certain numbness?


A nice thought, but there's way more to it than that. We are wired in a different manner, and it causes us to react differently.


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