Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi again,
I always find myself looking back on my diagnostic procedure and feeling quite traumatised. It was so embarrassing, what person in their mid-teens or in adulthood wants to mime brushing their teeth and read picture books and tell a story with a paperclip and answer all kinds of personal questions? I just found it really infantilising. I've reflected on it a lot recently, and particularly as I've read more and more material that says autism isn't a disease and we don't need fixing or curing [I still don't know where I am on this, I'm still on my journey] but it just seems really weird that we go to some kind of professional who is usually neurotypical to be labelled after answering their questions and doing their tests. I mean, I don't know how else diagnosis could happen, unless only autistics were allowed to diagnose autism which is just silly and would never happen, but... What do other people think?
I'm also tired of neurotypical people not listening to us. I'm sorry to say this - as I said before I don't do conflict - but I've been lurking on this site for quite a while and I've even seen examples of it on this site, autistic people saying that they're uncomfortable with things neurotypical users [parents etc] have said and the neurotypical person then responding by getting offended and talking over them and using emotional blackmail against the autistic person rather than listening and bettering themselves. I'm not going into specific occasions but I kind of just want to say that if a member of a minority group that you aren't a part of expresses they're not happy with something you've said then you should listen to them rather than getting defensive and making them look like the bad guys. You're the one with the privilege, even if you are close to someone who is autistic, you still aren't autistic yourself so you have allistic privilege. Rant over.
Hope you're all having a good week,
Scarlett
Yep all the time it's like s complete contradiction. They tell us that were normal they tell us are Autism isn't the probablem they tell us were social awkward but wait a minute. What's to say there not the ones who socially awkward what's to say there not the ones with the problem. Ironically the majority of NTs have an IQ below 100 making them stupid and borderline retarded. We have relatively high IQ's and are more logically thinking yet were labeled as introverts and wiered because of. In my opinion we'd of never been discovered if it wasn't for the *** yet they still treat as much the same as they did. Pumping us with antipsychotics then telling us were not phycotic but this to help with your condition even though there's no actual cure.were treated like mental illness even though it's DNA splicing that makes us and molds us the way we are if you can't prove as to why someone is born differently what's to say we are different or who was formed propperly 1st maybe NTs are are the defect form and were the superior being given how many NTs fear us or don't understand us I'd probably agree with this hypothesis to an extent. When Hitler rose to power the masses thought he was right because he had the power of we had the power in our hands what's to say we aren't right.