"I’ve stopped saying I ‘have Autism’ – being autistic is brilliant, not a burden"

'We are not a homogeneous group, and I recognise that a lot of autistic people, particularly the non-verbal community, may have a different lived experience. Learning difficulties and other comorbidities can add an extra complication. But for me there are plenty of positives associated with being autistic, which is why language is so important.'

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  • To be totally honest, I don’t like it. The cons have outweighed the pros and I have suffered a lot. I can get fleeting moments of pleasure related to it. But I know it’s all just bs. I resent this existence and I resent the set of requirements that society heavily implies I must meet in order to be ‘happy/satisfied/productive’. Especially now in this covid age, where I’m just supposed to accept the added risk of mixing because either 1) I’m supposed to be gormless and lax enough to just assume that no restrictions = it’s safe now, 2) ‘we’ have to live with it = ‘“la la la not listening, I cannot survive without my regular fomo bs gourmet burger, craft beer and bs smalltalk with fairweather friends’, and/or 3) “my work is not feasible unless I am present in person, so la la la, not listening!” People are s***. I’m out.

  • Your last line is so true, (and in "Casa Spergola" here, we say an even ruder version all the time) but never forget the unfortunate fact that the Venn diagram of "people" also includes YOU and ME. 

    That being said, your line of thinking parallels my own, and I have to report that as I get older, I am getting happier as I solve the unique problems caused by my Autism, and can start to enjoy the increased sensitivity, abillity to communicate with animals etc.

    The healthy (literally) reaction to covid, is to get away from the mainstream and go look at flccc website and take their advice. I was not offered a vaccination, and chose not to volunteer, for technical based personal reasons but I also did not want to get Covid, and for some reason all the joined up media seemed to suppress any useful prophylaxis or treatments in favour of a single apparently experimental novel injection.

    I know it's tempting fate, but by simply increasing my vitamin d intake (daily oral spray, no nasty tablet) and improving my basic microbiological awareness and hygiene I've literally become the least "sickly" person I know!!

    The vitamin D spray has transformed my oral health I haven;t had a spot or an infected cut or a cold etc for nearly three years now! It's a BIG change for me, and I like it very much. 

    A contributory factor is that I no longer socialise unless I want to, and it turns out that I don't really want to meet new people that much. Although there's a few on this forum I would like to meet (or have had the ability to meet). 

  • Sperg I hope it isn't too inapropriate to ask, and I really hope you don't take it as an affront in anyway (since aspergers used to serve as a useful delineation term and hasn't been replaced by an appropriate substitute yet) but I have wondered how do you you feel about the term Aspergers since it has come to light about Hans Asperger's involvement with nazi ideology? (I must stress this isn't a trick question in anyway) I simply note that it must still prove a useful (even if perhaps not perfect?) term to you.

  • You only needed to ask...

    And "test" because I never know where an answer will appear on this ruddy forum!

  • I think I'd like to know more facts about Asperger before damning him, although the rumours I've heard are unpleasant.

    I picked the name, because it's a term used informally by my kids age group, also "Sperglord" which you missed me picking by a narrow margin..

    It says Aspergers/Autism on my "certificate of incompetence" awarded to me by the NHS. so I use the terms interchangeably. 

    I'm also very keen to help people push past the "victim mentality" that I get a strong smell of around here, and towards a more robust accomodation with their own condition and how we relate to the normies and each other. 

    I Sperg (so what of it??) I guess is my subtext.

    Also there is the pointing out that the difference runs deep and can sink your ship if you aren't careful around people like me.

    Unfortunately, Nazi ideology, keeps re-appearing in new guises all the time, in that basic "pick a group and mobilise everyone else against them" strategy used to increase a power base.

    I've looked at a LOT of human martial history recently, (last ten years) and the German Third Reich killed a lot less people than several much lesser reviled regimes, excercised far less official sadism that an awful lot of regimes, (They are German after all, I know these people, some of them call me family, and they really aren't special monsters...) but they do it with a hell of a lot of hugo boss style.

    So I'm less negatively "energised" by the term Nazi than many.

    Not a sympathiser by any means, but my recent experience as a member of the unvaccinated "untermensch" has showed me what a mass formation psychosis can do to normal everyday people, and that propaganda and "opinion forming" science cuts right through modern family ties like a knife through butter, as it did back then..

    I actually thought I was in danger of being dragged off to a "camp" just between Leicester and Northampton at one point at the end of 2021! Such was the status of the "Unvaccinated" at that specific time. We were the "selfish, disease spreading, misinformed, "enemy within" that needed to be brought under control" was all the media was telling you. Omnichron saved our bacon, as it blew the narrative up in a crucial way, but that's a story for another day..

    Unfortunately my investigations into the right wing ideology, (If you call me a name that I don't understand fully, in the context in which you use it, I WILL go and look into what it actually means) also gave me a firm briefing in Anti-Semitism.

    Anti-Semitism is just beyond horrible, it makes you question the fundamentals that you have believed all your life. Never ever go there, it's like taking a lot of bad acid, man. I Still get flashbacks from that stuff, but thankfully I get none from the psychedelics I took when I was a kid... 

    But circling back to the original question, if my idea about Hans Asperger is correct in that he abused children whilst following some demented and transitory mind virus that the rest of his society was subject to, told him that was O.K. then keeping his name, means that people will not forget that "just because everyone else around you says it's O.K." does not mean that a particular lifestyle or belief system is actually not evil.

    We get tricked into reacting improperly all the time, for a certain small group of humans that are given so many names, using that feature for their exclusive benefit is their primary skill and has been since the dawn of time. 

    Richard Anton Wilsons trilogy "Illuminatus" is a good simple primer on the subject. :c)

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  • I think I'd like to know more facts about Asperger before damning him, although the rumours I've heard are unpleasant.

    I picked the name, because it's a term used informally by my kids age group, also "Sperglord" which you missed me picking by a narrow margin..

    It says Aspergers/Autism on my "certificate of incompetence" awarded to me by the NHS. so I use the terms interchangeably. 

    I'm also very keen to help people push past the "victim mentality" that I get a strong smell of around here, and towards a more robust accomodation with their own condition and how we relate to the normies and each other. 

    I Sperg (so what of it??) I guess is my subtext.

    Also there is the pointing out that the difference runs deep and can sink your ship if you aren't careful around people like me.

    Unfortunately, Nazi ideology, keeps re-appearing in new guises all the time, in that basic "pick a group and mobilise everyone else against them" strategy used to increase a power base.

    I've looked at a LOT of human martial history recently, (last ten years) and the German Third Reich killed a lot less people than several much lesser reviled regimes, excercised far less official sadism that an awful lot of regimes, (They are German after all, I know these people, some of them call me family, and they really aren't special monsters...) but they do it with a hell of a lot of hugo boss style.

    So I'm less negatively "energised" by the term Nazi than many.

    Not a sympathiser by any means, but my recent experience as a member of the unvaccinated "untermensch" has showed me what a mass formation psychosis can do to normal everyday people, and that propaganda and "opinion forming" science cuts right through modern family ties like a knife through butter, as it did back then..

    I actually thought I was in danger of being dragged off to a "camp" just between Leicester and Northampton at one point at the end of 2021! Such was the status of the "Unvaccinated" at that specific time. We were the "selfish, disease spreading, misinformed, "enemy within" that needed to be brought under control" was all the media was telling you. Omnichron saved our bacon, as it blew the narrative up in a crucial way, but that's a story for another day..

    Unfortunately my investigations into the right wing ideology, (If you call me a name that I don't understand fully, in the context in which you use it, I WILL go and look into what it actually means) also gave me a firm briefing in Anti-Semitism.

    Anti-Semitism is just beyond horrible, it makes you question the fundamentals that you have believed all your life. Never ever go there, it's like taking a lot of bad acid, man. I Still get flashbacks from that stuff, but thankfully I get none from the psychedelics I took when I was a kid... 

    But circling back to the original question, if my idea about Hans Asperger is correct in that he abused children whilst following some demented and transitory mind virus that the rest of his society was subject to, told him that was O.K. then keeping his name, means that people will not forget that "just because everyone else around you says it's O.K." does not mean that a particular lifestyle or belief system is actually not evil.

    We get tricked into reacting improperly all the time, for a certain small group of humans that are given so many names, using that feature for their exclusive benefit is their primary skill and has been since the dawn of time. 

    Richard Anton Wilsons trilogy "Illuminatus" is a good simple primer on the subject. :c)

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