Published on 12, July, 2020
As an older person with Autism, I was brought up in very different times with different thinking, values, acceptance, behaviour, etc (1970's & 80's).
The World has changed so much since then - both for better and worse.There have been so many advancements - particularly in science and this has benefitted us ASD'ers immensely.
One thing that is troubling me is that I hold a lot of "principles" that in this day and age would be considered "Old Fashioned", "Traditional", maybe even "Bigotry" or worse.There are things that I struggle to understand or accept which are based on my traditional attitude. I was brought up in an era when....
I openly discuss or rant about these topics along with some others that may be considered taboo with closed friends and family who have all become somewhat numb to my outrageousness / inappropriateness.
I have however managed to "behave" in public (stayed on the right side of the law), but occasionally do mutter things with a level of cowardice.My concern is that now that I am officially autistic, the shackles of having to mask may have been broken and that has the potential of me saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.
GPK26 said:I was brought up in an era when.... Boys had girlfriends and girls has boyfriends You were born a boy and died a man Men married women Humour was not censored People weren't "cancelled"
I was brought up in an era when....
Do you believe that when we were growing up there wasn't homo/bi/sexuality or gender dysphoria/alignment etc?
Homo/bi/sexuality is documented in ancient scripts.
It's simply a part of life - always has been, always will be.
With regard to the humour of the 70s, I'd rather not listen to racist, homophobic and sexist jokes, personally.
I am very glad indeed that this seems to be less acceptable than it once was, at least in some circles.
I, for one was relieved when '70s "humor" was canceled.
Having felt an outcast myself, it always made me squirm or angry,
and I was raised among hard core extreme branch of the John Birch Society*
who thought in such bigoted terms as to be unsuitable to site examples of
in this, our AS(not-a)D sanctuary.
*<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society>
thanks Debbie, as usual you see and hear me. I like to think that to be overly exposed to something creates antibodies to it. tee hee.
Uhane said: I was raised among hard core extreme branch of the John Birch Society* who thought in such bigoted terms as to be unsuitable to site examples of in this, our AS(not-a)D sanctuary.
I was raised among hard core extreme branch of the John Birch Society*
Thank you for sharing that.
That must have been quite tough for you as you come across as an open-minded well rounded person.
I thought I had enough to contend with at home with my mum's mental illness and extreme anti-gay position and my dad's racism, but at least these views weren't 'institutionalised'.