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Omatistic Spectrum Disorder

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Question: Has anyone seen a blog post/article/comment etc. that turns the idea of 'autism' being the 'alternate' way of being on it's head and instead treats being 'NT' as the 'disability'... something like replacing 'Autism/autistic' with 'Omatism/Omatistic' (using the Greek for 'Group' instead of the Greek for 'Self' as the root)?
The more I read around what being 'on the spectrum' means the more I see it defined in terms of deviation from NT 'norms'...
I'd be interested to see it presented the other way - I think it would be really helpful in learning to understand how these weirdo's think!
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  • Evolution and natural Selection can only work on actual Genes, as far as I am aware there are no Genes for the condition, those of us with Autism have a "Disorder", some damage has occurred ( perhaps in my case, the Autism could have resulted from my having been Cyanotic (Blue in Colour due to Oxygen deprivation during birth)  or it could have been as a result of "errors" in the way that our Neurons were coded to wire up with eachother. Whatever, I believe that we have been damaged in some way but it's not all bad.

    Perhaps god did not confuse the language spoken by the people who tried to build the Tower Of Babel, perhaps he just made the loudest ones Autistic!

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  • Evolution and natural Selection can only work on actual Genes, as far as I am aware there are no Genes for the condition, those of us with Autism have a "Disorder", some damage has occurred ( perhaps in my case, the Autism could have resulted from my having been Cyanotic (Blue in Colour due to Oxygen deprivation during birth)  or it could have been as a result of "errors" in the way that our Neurons were coded to wire up with eachother. Whatever, I believe that we have been damaged in some way but it's not all bad.

    Perhaps god did not confuse the language spoken by the people who tried to build the Tower Of Babel, perhaps he just made the loudest ones Autistic!

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