SEVERE AUTISTICS-CAN YOU "NORMALLY" FUNCTION W/O S

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Some people do and its beyond me. Maybe it makes them feel better about being weird... IDK.

You don't think I want to be like everyone else too? I don't want to collect a measly $700 a month from SSI. I want to work and have nice things! Do you think I want to be friendless? I want friends too! I don't want to sit in my room everyday programming. I want a girl friend but I am horrible with intimacy and have no idea what I am supposed to do to even develop a relationship. My family avoids me. It sucks!

There are people who say they are proud to be an aspie, that its a gift. How is this a gift? It's a ****ing curse! Why would you be proud to have a cummunication retardation? I'm embarrasssed!

A lot of members here have jobs and kids and significant others. To me, that shows that they are capable of communicating and developing relationahips.

I'm sick of people claiming to have this but yet they don't know what it's actually like to be alone and incapable of human relationships.

There is nothing to be proud of! This is not a gift! Look around the forum. You will see what I mean!

That happened close to where I live and I posted the video on my FaceBook page, someone (because they are a teacher currently working with a special ed class) had the gaul to stick up for the school and complain about the video. I wanted so badly to tell her how ignorant she was but she is a relative of my husband (through marriage) and we often spend holidays together so I didn't dare tell her what I really thought over facebook, I don't like drama so I just deleted her post. I wished one of other parents of autistic children on my friends list had seen her remark first and done it for me.

Wow. I'm amazed that anyone would defend that kind of behaviour. If it weren't a special ed class, many parents and teachers wouldn't condone that kind of behaviour in teachers around children. There wouldn't be a second thought about it.

I bet she didn't even watch the whole video but searched for a news report on it instead, I watched several and they all left out the worst parts. She tried to say that it was only one side of the story and that teachers see behavior that parents don't see at home .... what she doesn't realize is how difficult my own son's behavior is, he can really drive me up the wall but even when he pushes me to the point where I lose my temper I'd never resort to calling him such derogatory names nor would I ever insult his intelligence by having inappropriate conversations in front of him. If a teacher or aid can't help doing this they aren't qualified to work with special needs kids.

I don't lose speech often, but when I do, I lose speech before I lose comprehension. It makes sense to me that this would hold true for many non-verbal people: Understanding what is said may be an easier thing to do than producing speech of your own. There's just less of a cognitive load.

I absolutely hate it when people talk over my head, like I haven't got a clue. That isn't exclusive to autistics who can't talk--though they get it a heck of a lot more than I do, probably. It's like I'm not just immature, but somehow reduced to an object. Makes me feel like I'm cornered, like they're trying to take away my identity. I don't mean like a delusional belief that I'm losing myself; just the emotions that would come along with it, however irrational I know they are. It's frightening, overwhelming. I hate it. It triggers meltdowns when they don't see me as an equal. Maybe it's because it brings back a lot of bad memories--the way I got treated in the past, the way they took my ability to choose my own actions away from me. Don't ever do that to anybody. I'd prefer to be hit in the face any day.