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DivaD
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 Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 12:05 pm Post subject: Say it loud, autistic and proud |
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pretty good (though rather long) article on autistic activism
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,1639392,00.html
| Quote: | | Shocking and unreasonable as the autism activists seemed at first sight, they are really only bringing a medical backwater up to speed. In our personal relationships, in schools, at work, we all expect a degree of consensus and to have our own needs and wants taken into account. Patient groups in many other fields expect to have a say in the services provided and how research is done. Autism presents a challenge to this trend, not so much, it turns out, because the people involved don't have a sense of our minds, but because we are very bad at reading theirs. More and more of them are trying to explain what's going on with them, and what they want. Shouldn't we be listening? |
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CockneyRebel
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| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm Proud! |
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toddjh
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I've never understood the concept of being proud of something you have no control over...
Edited to add: That said, education and activism can be good things if approached properly. 
Edited to add again: I wonder, though, if it's not a lost cause on certain levels. Certainly it would be good for adults to understand more about how we're different, but I think most mistreatment of Aspies occurs in childhood, and I don't know what can really be done about that -- kids are just like that. It would be helpful if teachers and school employees worked harder to keep bullies under control, but that's just a good idea in general, and not related to autistic children in particular.
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Ladysmokeater
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Location: North of Atlanta, South of Boston, East of the Mississippi, and West of the Atlantic
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| Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 3:38 am Post subject: |
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Well Im not ashamed!  |
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