Autism in the Media

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Basically, you wanted that diagnosis which led to you being railroaded from a decent job. Why?? Did you think it would give you some sort of special treatment or money at work opposed to the mistreatment you got? I can't fathom why you wanted such a diagnosis and could not let things be. Now it is Anne Hegertty who has the well paying job on The Chase not you. She would be considered the minority who is doing well due to her condition while the majority are marginalized or chronically unemployed.

MrMacPhisto, AsPartofMe is right the doctor went against patient confidentiality when he went and told your boss you had Autism. In all truth you should have disclosed your diagnosis when you felt it was right and certainly not after the airing of that awful TV show. I too told a boss that I had Autism once before a charity Hot Dog sale my old military unit was going to have. I had chosen to donate my portion of the proceeds to a charity for Autistic children. The charity event never occurred because two days before it was to happen our unit Senior Chief was found dead in a local drainage ditch leaving behind a wife and two children. That tragedy overshadowed any Autism drama that could have resulted from my confession. A few weeks after that one of the Petty Officers came out and announced he was gay and our unit had a Village People Themed send-off for him. That was back at the time of DADT. After all that drama what I had said had been forgotten and I left it that way. I'm sorry this happened to you. I hope you can eventually find a job with more tolerant employers and that your doctor does not ruin that for you.

I have been following the emergence of the “autist” archetype in forum groups and alternative information sites. It seems to be a reference to a person with talent in areas of focus, error-finding, and information organization. Non-autistic people have now been touting their own “autist” powers when doing personal research, which is an interesting development.

Trump won. What have you lost?

Well written and encouraging with a healthy, positive message, Mr. Alex!

Hi,

I am an Aspie and proud. All of mankinds greatest inventions, most of mankinds greatest discoveries and a heavy hand in music and art has come from autism. Autism is a part of being human, an important part. The fickle media will learn when it grows up and stops insisting it knows best. Clearly it does not currently.
I am enthused by a surge in public interest and this will lead to a better understanding. I do wish neurotypical people would simply ask us. We have heightened senses meaning we see, hear, smell, taste and feel more than most. Part of feeling more means we are hyper sernsitive to the stress hormones released when the body senses danger. Neurotypical people can ignore low levels of stress hormones, autistic people cannot at all. If only neurotypical people knew, if only they learnt or at least listened, the insistence of anyone that they know enough now is erroneus.

Any neurotypical person fancy observing rather just seeing? Your sight is flawed and blinkered.

A search of IMDB produced 617 shows related to autism. I look forward to perusing these. (Use 'ADVANCED SEARCH' and put 'AUTISM' in box related to 'PLOT'). I scanned all 617 and did not find "THE BRIDGE" which begs the question how many shows did not make the list?

Do not get me wrong please: is the girl on the photo playing with a toy displaying the bitten fruit on its lid?!

I suggest we change the media and world, ourselves by a subtle change to the name everytime we and our supporters spell or write about our condition.... The new name is arutistic , as in artistic -as that is what we are artists in our dealing with the NT (nitwit) world...as look around read the news...thats what they are