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Positive people with Autism

MM

Hi Folks,

Believe me I'm no Pollyanna but I do think people with Autism have a lot to offer society.

Many of us hold down good jobs, do voluntary work and manage being on the Autism Spectrum.

There are many times being an Aspie had meant my determination and refusal to accept the staus quo has worked.

An awful lot of my job needs that on a daily basis.

Maybe its time society starts to value everyone for their contribution?

Parents

  • We are often told that 'no-one is perfect'. But we expect physical issues or mistakes which are one-offs.

    For years I have tried to fit in and never managed, to be told that the reason I don't fit in is a great relief.  Although I will try and learn more about the things I struggle with, I think it will be so much easier to be able to say "I can't do that" and have a recognised reason.  No-one would be upset if someone (for example) didn't have much interest in TV or films if they were blind.

    So I have a 'condition', to understand the condition we need to educate people.  My condition I can now understand as a simple bottleneck, something that causes me to have slow understanding of communication, it takes me longer than others to understand what is being told to me and longer to respond, think of the comment 'garbage in, garbage out!'  I also have a 'gift', once there is an understanding of the condition we can see the gift.  I am a 'fixer', I can look at an IT system which is flawed and work down to the problem no matter how many others have looked and failed.  I suspect that this will work in others area as well, but the bottleneck usually gets in the way.

     

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  • We are often told that 'no-one is perfect'. But we expect physical issues or mistakes which are one-offs.

    For years I have tried to fit in and never managed, to be told that the reason I don't fit in is a great relief.  Although I will try and learn more about the things I struggle with, I think it will be so much easier to be able to say "I can't do that" and have a recognised reason.  No-one would be upset if someone (for example) didn't have much interest in TV or films if they were blind.

    So I have a 'condition', to understand the condition we need to educate people.  My condition I can now understand as a simple bottleneck, something that causes me to have slow understanding of communication, it takes me longer than others to understand what is being told to me and longer to respond, think of the comment 'garbage in, garbage out!'  I also have a 'gift', once there is an understanding of the condition we can see the gift.  I am a 'fixer', I can look at an IT system which is flawed and work down to the problem no matter how many others have looked and failed.  I suspect that this will work in others area as well, but the bottleneck usually gets in the way.

     

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