Lets see, constant bullying, breaking down your self asteem, constantly being ignored, verbally and sometimes physically abused, while the people who are supposedly helping you, are really telling people your a burden, hell how many aspies do you really know who work in the autism society, and not in subordinately valued positions (handing out pencils at a meeting doesn't count)?
I got an AS group started in my area, for high functioning adults. At first they didn't want us to run it, because they said they'd run it until we got on our feet and moving, but then when we got going they wouldn't back off, it was time for us to run our group on our own and they pretty much insisted, in no uncertain terms, that we needed NT babysitters. We fought with them and we WON the ability to run this group on our own. But we still have to battle frequently with control issues, I haven't been back in a while..... I've heard that they've finally decided to step aside and let us do our thing.
Did you ever hear of a french political movement called Post Autistic Economics?
The movement for Post-Autistic Economics (PAE) was born through the work of Sorbonne economist Bernard Guerrien. Started in Spring 2000 by group of disaffected French economics students, Post-Autistic Economics first reached a wider audience in June 2000 after an interview in Le Monde.
It was supported by the Cambridge Ph.D. students in 2001 with the publication of "Opening Up Economics: A Proposal By Cambridge Students" and is signed by 797 students.
The term autistic is used in an informal way, synonymous to "closed-minded" or "self-absorbed". It has been criticized for using the medical diagnosis, autism, as a derogatory expression.
24 Jan 2007, 6:23 pm
