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Ok first of I'm not neurotypical but some how I feel like you are trying to suggest I am I mean I am sure you don't like your feelings and experiences dis-validated, well neither do other aspies like me and I doubt neurotypical people like it either....and secondly I am saying you are denying some of us on the spectrum have impairments, if you don't great, but speak for yourself.

Why try and create division based on neurological functioning or whatever? what problems is that going to solve?

Are you sure THAT your boss is neuro-typical ? LoL. Trust me when i say this, autists are every where.........

TheSunAlsoRises

I am not saying that you are neurotypical. Psychiatric technicians used to tell me that I was in denial about my mental illness yet they were not smart enough to diagnose me.

Yesterday when I failed to recall my name it was because I was thinking of profound meanings for my name. This caused my brain to jump from an automatic mode to a manual conscious mode of contemplation.. Yet the neurotypical must of thought that I had Atziemers disease or something.

So all neurotypicals love to say specifically to you 'you're in denial about your mental illness.' because a few psychiatric technicians you probably cannot even prove where neurotypical said that? That is quite the generalization to make. Also why must the neurotypical have thought you had Atziemers disease? Is that what you would think if that happened to someone else when you where talking to them?

Often-times, it's a tradeoff. Forgetting your name does NOT negate the fact THAT you can probably do some amazing things. Listen, there are people out here THAT do NOT even know their name who can do some extraordinary things.

The conventional wisdom in research when unique abilities are found in a person with disabilities IS: IF that person has disabilities and posses THAT particular skill set imagine what it would be like IF i had their abilities because i have no disabilities.

Even acquiring something through trauma or illness, is going to leave some identifying mark, all we're haggling over is degree of severity and importance of the skill set/trait lost.

Thin line. The same line THAT is said to exist between genius and insanity also shares occupancy with profound disability and profound ability.~TheSunAlsoRises

TheSunAlsoRises

Acknowledging that Einstein had autism and accomplished great things in spite of his autism ignores this fact. Einstein found genius through autism.

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TheSunAlsoRises

I think there is some truth to both sides.....on one hand he accomplished great things in spite of his difficulties related to autism, on the other hand the way his brain was wired could have very well contributed to his genius abilities.

I actually have an odd theory, sometimes people have an extra well developed talent or skill, but they might be lacking in other areas due to the fact the human brain in general can only do so much at once. So while einstein had a genius mind, he struggled with things such as tying his shoes and such.

Of course. Trying to invent a time machine would take an enormous amount of brain power. So why bother with tying your shoes when you are on the verge of a great discovery?

f**k yeah superpowers!

I didn't forget the meaning of my name.

It's not going to be ready overnight. Research will require time. There is lots of research out there into neurology, pathologically related or not, into autism in particular or not. Science hasn't made it this close in order to go no further.

dalurker, research will continue and advancements will be made; there is no doubt about THAT.

Realistically, too much money and too much potential is in genetic research for any entity to put a halt to IT. With the exception of something catastrophic occurring i.e Famine, World War 3, total collapse of the economy etc, the types of research you want to happen...will happen.

Let's just make sure everyone shares 'equally' in those risks; ethics demands it!!

TheSunAlsoRises

Our schools and social service agencies seem to *need* to define people as either "high"-functioning or as "low"-functioning. They really do.

I think it would be a significant improvement if more people purporting to want to help us were comfortable with the category of medium-functioning.

Well, what help would we then give the person ? ? And that seems to be the nervous unstated question.

Well, why don't we respectfully engage and communicate with the person and see what help they would like to receive? And that seems to be the obvious answer.

And those of us with greater skills in some areas, I think we have a real opportunity, not a dry obligation, but an opportunity and open field to stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters who often struggle more.

I wouldn't bother with it, but I wouldn't go around thinking it makes me superior either.

So how should I go around thinking? That I have delusions of grandeur?