Playing the Autism Card May Be Harmful to Humanity

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What's your point? I've been to plenty of public places where NTs talk loudly talking about practically nothing or screaming into their mobile phones laughing about some inane thing and irritating me with their voices. How are they more justified to be in public than this boy? This says more about you than it does about the boy you are picking on.



So according to you what is autism? what are we educating the public about?

So you have an opportunity to educate us, set us straight?

You did not read one word that I wrote. Just so you know.

Should be careful because that way lies self-narrating zoo exhibits.

http://everything2.com/title/self-narrating+zoo+exhibit

Well there's that. Then there's what the gay community manged to pull together and do after AIDs struck.

True, I'm just saying.

I think what's more important than being able to explain what it's like to be autistic is to at least receive understanding and accommodation. Like education should not be the price for being accepted as fully human.

Yeah, I think we want to try to get rid of that less than human treatment. That's the whole point. I feel like for my entire life I have been alone as a species, even when i thought I knew I was Autistic, I still thought i was alone, I just didn't know anyone like me. Now I see that there are so many people suffering, some if it is the ravages of Autism itself and that needs to be dealt with, but so freaking much of it is just that we are treated as "others." I'm not the only one, there are so many of us. I think we need to find a way to make them understand that we are not the other. We can't do it individually.

I did and you still have not made your points any clearer? You can (I think) take two constructive approaches;
- identify that you have a unique profile and that you can focus on your own issues and overcoming them in your own way
- identify you have common problems with others here and seek to contribute toward the education of the general public about issues that are common to many (maybe not all) people on the autism spectrum.

I did not find your comments about the LFA boy constructive or enlightening.

So you disagree with me. Not the end of the world.
I'm not going to beat the story about the kid to death. It was just about how society (including myself) misunderstands disability based on the stereotype of that disability.

Verdandi...did you see the POV video....Best Kept Secret? it is only online for two more days...I know it would be very interesting to you...am assuming you watched it....what did you think of it? If you did not see it, make sure you do....

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I didn't even make my point yet, so do not see how you can disagree with it..

p.s. Everyone who can please watch those two videos.

the w person. Ha that might be my new name!
After several comments and 10 pages, one starts to extrapolate.

Btw, while it's true I could hardly officially diagnose him, I wasn't under the impression that he was Autistic.

I had not heard about Best Kept Secret until now.

I really am not connected to current stuff.

Every time I see the sweet intelligent cat face of the drain plane grain girl I get happy:-)

Anyway, all of this brain activity results in the next movement, and everything around one and within one is always moving and changing, so I would say that the end product of thinking, which is what sorting is, actually, is orientat-ing. There is no way to characterize that symbolically, as far I know. You can make a choreography of a past dance or a dance one wants to orchestrate, but it is not the same as a human being participating in a constant ever changing dance.

But orientation is what will take us home, so it is important to know in what direction to go. I know this does not explain that much. Think about it in terms of left brain and right brain, so the relationship between fine tuning and general 'tuning.' You would think that fine-tuning would be connected to an action, but actually it is probably more general 'tuning'. If people get lost in two many small details they become paralyzed. The person who knows less seems to know what to do, even if it is just a reaction, but also, in a time of danger, you need to know what to do, and generally alert people really do know. They do not have time to stop and think about it.

Sorry this is so hard. I did not say it would be easy, but there will be a big reward....eventually.....

Though I find your comments interesting and a valuable contribution to this thread, there is a chance that doing the above may create as much of a problem as it does a solution.. I do not know if you have seen the documentary, Neurotypical, or read my comments about it, but this documentary is a good case in point for my argument that what you suggest may be doing more harm then good. It is kind of a subtle point, I acknowledge. I will be writing on this in more detail in the future.