What is ‘Sanctuary’?

Over the past 6 months I have been reaping-my-way through the post-diagnosis autistic service-provision, after all of the searching and hunting for answer, I have been left with a reasonable-suspicion that my initial hypothesis is true. That the field of autism lacks awareness and provision, such that only becoming your owe saviour, is the only sure way of freedom.

But this cannot be done alone, especially in the case of the incompetent and illiterate, success can only be assured though amateur-means and interest-fuelled increment, such as I am. When practiced and exposed enough the autist themself becomes the artist. But alongside the different-aspect off autism, there is also the spared-functional-aspect the side that requires a mentor and peers, to help an autist consider the extremity-and-rigidity and provide proactivity in supporting impairments.

So that begs the question of: What is sanctuary to an autistic-person? Is it a number of things balanced, or is it the glue that binds these things, or it is peer and mentor review such as is observed in this forum? Is it the opportunity for safe-exposure to threats? It is protection and safety from threats and fear?

Also what resources can an autist consider reliable and effective? Because to me it is not to be found in the upper-echelons of professional practice, nor can it be found reliably in operational service-provision, to me it has only been found amongst this forum and within my own skill-and-interest..

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  • Thanks for the clarification and contrast guys, it’s easy-enough to allow passage of the reverberations of past-chaos, to darken my thoughts and dull my peace. It was my pretext, in writing this discussion, that sanctuary was the illusion of stone and validation.
    It was my point that it was inevitable that the stone was destined to be sand running through a firm-grip, and that validation was little-more than sown-wind waiting to be reaped, but it’s hard to see a pretext for what it is by one’s self..Sweat smile

  • I guess I’ve had armour like-gossamer today, I’ve felt unusually-mortal and have felt the mortality of the world around me too-keenly, I haven’t reached for a single-ledge this week that hasn’t felt-like smoke..

    I guess that’s partly my fault for taking the leaps, and leaving the ground too-flippantly, it’s been nice to notice that the forum hadn’t treated me like smoke, as you guys had enquired after me and I was touched (excuse the pun)..Sweat smile

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  • I guess I’ve had armour like-gossamer today, I’ve felt unusually-mortal and have felt the mortality of the world around me too-keenly, I haven’t reached for a single-ledge this week that hasn’t felt-like smoke..

    I guess that’s partly my fault for taking the leaps, and leaving the ground too-flippantly, it’s been nice to notice that the forum hadn’t treated me like smoke, as you guys had enquired after me and I was touched (excuse the pun)..Sweat smile

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