KenG wrote:
"feeling that, after a life spent among aliens, I had met someone who came from the same planet as me." This "same planet" metaphor, along with metaphors about "speaking the same language" or "belonging to the same tribe," are very common descriptions used by autistic people who have had this experience of autistic space. One participant at the first Autreat in 1996 summed it up saying, "I feel as if I'm home, among my own people, for the first time. I never knew what this was until now.
I've introduced my daughter to other autistic kids her age when she was 6. I don't know if it was a contrived situation of meeting in an unfamiliar surrounding but it came across like an episode of the TV series Babylon 5 where every child behaved like they came from a different planet, each doing their own thing. The irony of proposing an autistic culture is that each person is as different from one another as they are from NTs...
04 Apr 2016, 9:32 pm
