Autistic people have super powers? Are super heroes autistic
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However, claiming that autism is somehow super-power is equally ludicrous. People need to accept that they have a developmental and/or perceptive disorder and stop trying to rationalize it with flawed data and fallacious reasoning into a claim of alleged superiority over more socially and professionally successful people.
If you have and autism spectrum disorder, just face it, accept it, own it, and deal with it. Autism does not make you superior to anyone in any way.
This said in one post in a better way what I have been trying to say in 7+ years here. It is what Sara Luterman was getting at in the quote of hers I use for my signature.
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“My autism is not a superpower. It also isn’t some kind of god-forsaken, endless fountain of suffering inflicted on my family. It’s just part of who I am as a person”. - Sara Luterman
However, claiming that autism is somehow super-power is equally ludicrous. People need to accept that they have a developmental and/or perceptive disorder and stop trying to rationalize it with flawed data and fallacious reasoning into a claim of alleged superiority over more socially and professionally successful people.
If you have an autism spectrum disorder, just face it, accept it, own it, and deal with it. Autism does not make you superior to anyone in any way.
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However, claiming that autism is somehow super-power is equally ludicrous. People need to accept that they have a developmental and/or perceptive disorder and stop trying to rationalize it with flawed data and fallacious reasoning into a claim of alleged superiority over more socially and professionally successful people.
If you have an autism spectrum disorder, just face it, accept it, own it, and deal with it. Autism does not make you superior to anyone in any way.
You are welcome.
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It is Autism Acceptance Month
“My autism is not a superpower. It also isn’t some kind of god-forsaken, endless fountain of suffering inflicted on my family. It’s just part of who I am as a person”. - Sara Luterman
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We are more than our autism---just like other people are more than whatever condition or non-condition they have.
Sara, me, you, and Fnord are saying the same thing in different ways which is a good thing because how effective a different ways of communicating a message is gotten across varies by reader of said message.
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It is Autism Acceptance Month
“My autism is not a superpower. It also isn’t some kind of god-forsaken, endless fountain of suffering inflicted on my family. It’s just part of who I am as a person”. - Sara Luterman
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Four of us saying the same thing in different ways improves the chances of the OP understanding what we are saying. Understanding does not conflate to the agreeing with it.
To be fair to the OP the OP has changed the wording a bit so I both understand and agree with what the OP is trying to accomplish. Which is trying to end the horrible low self esteem issues all to common with people on the spectrum and do it by pointing out strengths associated with autism. I just disagree with armchair celebrity diagnosing and retro diagnosing historical figures(thorough self diagnosing while controversial and with similarities is not the same as retro/celebrity diagnosing). I think it is enough to say these people that have autistic traits or are outliers have had success.
I am trying to do the same thing as the OP when I post articles about autistic people that accomplish things. My purpose is not to inspiration porn you, or shame you for not accomplishing things that those autistic people did. Fact is you are not that person, you are not Fnord, nor are you ASPartOfMe, you have different environments then us so you probably are not to accomplish what we did. It is to show you that just because you are autistic does not mean you are doomed to failure.
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DSM 5: Autism Spectrum Disorder, DSM IV: Aspergers Moderate Severity
It is Autism Acceptance Month
“My autism is not a superpower. It also isn’t some kind of god-forsaken, endless fountain of suffering inflicted on my family. It’s just part of who I am as a person”. - Sara Luterman
While I agree with the idea of trying to show people that autism is not a social death sentence, I also agree with the idea that making an armchair diagnosis of a celebrity or retro-diagnosing historical figures beyond "... this person seems to have autistic traits" is both presumptuous and defeats the whole purpose of trying to end the horribly low self-esteem issues common to most people on the ASD spectrum.
Then again, my efforts to relate my own experiences / diagnosis / success in an effort to inspire others have been met with reactions from bland indifference to open hostility and ridicule -- that old saying about leading a horse to water seems particularly appropriate to this.
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I think I understand the emotionalism now. It is based on miscommunication. I never said that we should be proud that we can tie our shoes. All I am saying is that we are different. Is that judgmental? If it is then the term " Asperger" has no meaning. All I am saying is that we are different and usually defined by our disabilities. Why cant our abilities also be part of the definition?
I repeatedly said that I am not superior to a neurotypical. I just have DIFFERENT abilities. They are better at social skills etc. Granted " superpower" is hyperbole. But since we are labeled as having super disabilities, I was trying to tell the other half of the story.
I guess we really do have a superpower as evidenced by the posts in response to my OP. Our superpower is empathy. We even feel sympathy for neurotypicals! Many as evidenced by the posts here feel that I was too hard on them.
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It took 9 pages but I think we got a basic agreement.
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It is Autism Acceptance Month
“My autism is not a superpower. It also isn’t some kind of god-forsaken, endless fountain of suffering inflicted on my family. It’s just part of who I am as a person”. - Sara Luterman
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