Media/pop culture Autism attitudes vs lived experience

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Small-ish congregation. Basic issue atm is that I am a college Junior trying to get together internships, classes finished, OCD therapy and all. I go to college on Long Island. So it's difficult to do much.

I can see about that. I'm an Orthodox Christian.

Russian, Serbian, and Greek are all "Eastern Orthodox" (technically, that is the denomination).

Armenian Orthodox is Oriental Orthodox (technically a different sect of Christianity to EO, but so similar that the two are sometimes conflated).

I am simply "Eastern Orthodox", I don't pay attention to ethnic labels.

Yea Oriental orthodox parted ways with the other churches in the 5th century.But the rest are in communication with each and sort of under the same umbrella.

The problem is many particularly advocates want to over complicate things, it’s really not that hard to navigate the issue.

Autism is a medical disorder, not an identity / different way of being or type of left handedness as I heard somewhere.

Autism is a whole body disorder that originates from the brain that effects not only psychological / neurological functioning but fine / gross motor skills, and causes other health issues as well, such as faulty electrical activity in the brain ( epilepsy) stomach and heart issues and increased dementia risk in advanced age, which is the part cause of our much lower life expectancy, if one excludes accidents and suicide.

Advocates want to separate autism from all the other disorders associated with it, but this is not possible. Their is no "pure autism", its a collection of overlapping disorders & multiple genetic faults as scientists recently confirmed in the beginning of this video.

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/ ... disorders/

Obviously grown adults should be free to choose their own bodies and path in life, but for those with more manageable milder symptoms to dictate to the medical community and others, that there should be "no cure" developed for any including severe autism like those in ND claim is just unethical and selfish.

There is only one reason ND are against a cure and its because they want to create an "identity" out of it for what they in their misguided belief will bring them benefits (it wont), to the detriment of those who are unable to voice their opinion because they are to disabled by their autism.

I read somewhere like a person with designer spectacles saying I quite like being short sighted so no eye disorders or blindness should be cured.

The benefits and acceptance that ND believe would happen with an "identity" simply wont, the word autistic is already considered an alternative to the "R word" as already recently discussed on this site. All that will happen is we will go from being human with a disorder to be simply dumped into a genetic underclass and de-humanised with all that will entail.

The bright future advocates crave may simply end up being Sterilisation for food stamps and services.

I know what you are saying and I agree as we have already seen its effects. Where they ignore the more severe case of ASD because it's easier to work with the less severe, and they just treat them like they dont have problems in comparison. Everything becomes twisted because of it. I had many arguments with morons on Twitter who were disgusting about it TO me, like they would retweet my thing to say parents ruin lives, by pushing therapy, etc
i HAD to tell them that without therapy my kid couldnt sip water. still rarely does, but he CAN at least.
he needed to be worked through everything.
they still didnt understand and said things like well MY parents taught me myself they didnt subject me to trauma of therapy.
they came onto my youtube videos to try and say the same.

when they run out of arguments,
they try and take the moral high ground by saying ' you seem overly eager to justify yourself' or something similar...


they didnt believe me when i said my kid loves therapy either, they said i was 'speaking for him' well duh . he's not on twitter, im merely seeing the only way he communicates, which is nonverbal, and inferring complete joy and happiness from his behaviour.

morons.

they are disgustingly close-minded and almost like a cult in the way they approach the idea of severe ASD..
i know it's not from THEIR ASD because they can change their mind and open up to other things judging from what they say...

but yeah i see what you're saying now

feelings vs facts basically.
although they are justified in a lot because i saw bad therapy and bad professionals too and they still are prone to it so the parent HAS to advocate (which of course is 'speaking for the child' and 'projecting' and is a sin too apparently) because often they are very wrong and assume bad behaviour when its legit and has a real reason etc

also i read books in which professionals were so ew and their attitude came through. they may have contributed a lot to the field and to improving their clients' lives and others, but things stuck out that were like what?!?! are you a Nazi???

i try to take the good and leave the rest, but its really impossible sometimes, as it taints everything.
not with everyone, but i see the twitter people's reasons too... they just should stick to wrongplanet because I think TWITTERs format turns everyone to psychopaths in their way of thinking... it makes it fleeting and superficial and just wrong...not thorough...
but anyway..

like this Glenn Dorman man, from a book called 'what to do about your brain injured child'
a super informative and beneficial read..
still, it was obvious his attitude wasnt completely pure and noble, and it really 'left a bad taste in my mouth'

here's an example (i might be slightly paraphrasing)

he said that he figured out the developmental stages (thus what therapy shd target as each stage progresses for the more delayed child)...

by asking himself the question 'what stages does it take to develop and become a human?"
by stages he mentioned , first you crawl, then u prop yourself up.
first you think like this, then you become aware of colours, etc.
and therapy was to help them achieve those stages in succession.

essentially he was implying that his clients/kids he saw and helped were NOT human.

you're born human.