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Why everything you know about autism is wrong!

Kitsune

I found this YouTube clip while being unable to sleep!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=A1AUdaH-EPM

What does everyone think of what she has to say?

Parents

  • While I find Jac den Houting an inspirational speaker. In fact I now want to do further academic studies in Autism after listening to her speech! I am inclined to conclude that the truth is somewhere in the middle. We should not be regarded as broken and needing to be fixed by society as a whole BUT we do suffer from symptoms as a result of our our neurotype which would still afflict us even if society wholey accommodated our social/communication/obsessive/sensory differences! 

    However, I would like to end this discussion on a positive note. So, I have taken the advice of the speaker and turned to doctor google, looking for articles from the autistic perspective. Because while we do suffer from symptoms that can debilitate us to varying degrees, there are also positive aspects to being autistic!

    https://autismawarenesscentre.com/the-positives-of-autism/

    https://the-art-of-autism.com/positive-aspects-of-aspergers-autism/

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  • While I find Jac den Houting an inspirational speaker. In fact I now want to do further academic studies in Autism after listening to her speech! I am inclined to conclude that the truth is somewhere in the middle. We should not be regarded as broken and needing to be fixed by society as a whole BUT we do suffer from symptoms as a result of our our neurotype which would still afflict us even if society wholey accommodated our social/communication/obsessive/sensory differences! 

    However, I would like to end this discussion on a positive note. So, I have taken the advice of the speaker and turned to doctor google, looking for articles from the autistic perspective. Because while we do suffer from symptoms that can debilitate us to varying degrees, there are also positive aspects to being autistic!

    https://autismawarenesscentre.com/the-positives-of-autism/

    https://the-art-of-autism.com/positive-aspects-of-aspergers-autism/

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  • in reply to Kitsune

    I consider myself to be a perfectly good human being - a society of people like us would be interesting to see how it would work - but I wonder if my level of high-functioning would, in the long term, get on with others who are lower functioning and would we end up with the same situation as us vs. NTs.   Would the same divisions occur?