What happen with autistics.org article??

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WP has linked to it time and again in the many posts on "becoming more autistic." The title of the article is "Help! I seem to be getting more autistic!" I saved it to my favorites months ago but now when I go and click it it just goes to the main autistics.org site!! ! I LOVED reading this article on occassion. I Googled it and found it posted on some messageboard IMO that is kind of inconvenient. I liked it being on autistics.org what happen to this article. I hope someone knows.

Going to the Main page of the site, it looks like they updated the site this past summer, to a whole new version of it, so that's why the link doesn't work. I notice there's a note that says "As always, you can see the old site by following the 'Archive' link in the menu." I did that and found the article.

http://archive.autistics.org/library/more-autistic.html

Whoops! Sorry I guess I didn't click around enough. Thanks!! !!

I must be the only person who doesn't like that article.

Any particular reason you don't care for it? I seems rather logical to me. I'd just like to know why you don't care for it. Not looking for debate. More of an exercise in ToM for me. I'd like to see it from your point of view. Seriously.

If you don't want to risk an all-out debate on the board, you can PM me.

I had not seen that article but I like it. It's very insightful. I went through the process described when I first discovered that I might be autistic. "I match here. I guess I am" "I don't match there. I guess I'm not." I've pretty much gotten over that. No one has every trait or to the same degree.

I also liked the analogy about using a 0 to 10 scale as to where you are with any skill and how hard much energy you have to put into something to appear "normal." Back in my 20's I was killing myself every week at work trying to keep up with everyone else. It was literally making me ill. I'd start out fine on Monday. By Friday I was a basket case. I used the weekend to recover so I could repeat it next week. Not fun. I made it because I gave up trying to be like everyone else.

I remember reading that article on here when I first moved out, because I was noticing a change in some of my traits. It made a lot of sense to me and it's a very good article.

The article has disappeared again.

It can be found on archive.org here
http://web.archive.org/web/20160311010434/http://archive.autistics.org/library/more-autistic.html