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Would you change?

Sam

I have been thinking a lot since my diagnosis, and the internet seems bombarded with information about our difficulties and defecits, and I think this overshadows our qualities. We can be honest and loyal, have remarkable memory and recall,  be meticulous, logical and we can hyperfocus, as some examples. 

I realise we have all had different experiences in life, but I was just curious if you would rather be NT if given the opportunity?

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  • Well, in spite of the difficulties I've faced, especially in the workplace, I always feel quite attached to being me.  Sort of, "What else have any of us got in this life, how else can we be, how else can we add to the world?"  And changing to the extent of becoming NT seems to me to involve a kind of suicide or significant self harm.  Have we really become cornered and damaged to that extent and, if so, why does it reflect on us, not them?  

    And I'm sick of the pathologising medical model that I think has been foisted upon us and which I like to imagine will disappear in, say, another couple of decades.  After all, why do a bunch of medics or other non autistics with vested interests get to define us and our "difficulties and deficits" without any consideration of the positives or the whole picture?  Then put in it their very big compendium of disorders? 

    Why can't we call the shots?

    autism-advantage.com/what-is-autism.html

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  • Well, in spite of the difficulties I've faced, especially in the workplace, I always feel quite attached to being me.  Sort of, "What else have any of us got in this life, how else can we be, how else can we add to the world?"  And changing to the extent of becoming NT seems to me to involve a kind of suicide or significant self harm.  Have we really become cornered and damaged to that extent and, if so, why does it reflect on us, not them?  

    And I'm sick of the pathologising medical model that I think has been foisted upon us and which I like to imagine will disappear in, say, another couple of decades.  After all, why do a bunch of medics or other non autistics with vested interests get to define us and our "difficulties and deficits" without any consideration of the positives or the whole picture?  Then put in it their very big compendium of disorders? 

    Why can't we call the shots?

    autism-advantage.com/what-is-autism.html

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