wokening to neurodiversity

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fjL ... Nz840/edit

I'd really appreciate if folks here would read this essay I've written and offer their feedback/corrections/etc.

Thank Yous!
Dayna

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It's definitely eloquent, but it seems to generalize a bit. I don't know that the world would be a better place if people who qualify for the 21st century definition of "autism" ran it.

We are plenty capable of bigotry, starting wars, global climate change, greed, etc. I know several people on the spectrum who frankly are not good people. Not because we are evil, but because we are all people, good and bad.

Thank you for your response!!
*nod* I know what you say is so. And to a degree, my accounting for this is that autties learn that they *have* to accept the baseline tenets of their surrounding culture (to not get hurt)...and that their trauma (from being ostracized) coallesces into externalizing aggression at socially accepted targets. They become "us" by embracing the narrative of "them".
I will think more about your feedback, and invite others to help me find ways to say this...