I'm newly diagnosed as autistic and part of me still wants to be "normal".......whatever normal is. Is this normal? Any advice from anyone feeling a similar way?
I'm newly diagnosed as autistic and part of me still wants to be "normal".......whatever normal is. Is this normal? Any advice from anyone feeling a similar way?
You are normal...there is nothing "wrong or not normal" about you anyway....you're good as you are ...in fact as a neuro typical I often find myself jealous of my son who is autistic as his thinking I feel sometimes is better than mine I often find myself realising that it's me who is wrong etc...its just different and my son hates it when I say we just have different brains as he says yeah but your not neurologicaly disabled it is what it is etc…he sees what he can't do and others can etc. I feel that it's just ignorance ie when neuro typical say oh you're not normal etc ..its just plain ignorant and a lack of knowledge and understanding. What if the world was all autistic brains with neuro typical in the minority it'd be the other way round then.
You are normal...there is nothing "wrong or not normal" about you anyway....you're good as you are ...in fact as a neuro typical I often find myself jealous of my son who is autistic as his thinking I feel sometimes is better than mine I often find myself realising that it's me who is wrong etc...its just different and my son hates it when I say we just have different brains as he says yeah but your not neurologicaly disabled it is what it is etc…he sees what he can't do and others can etc. I feel that it's just ignorance ie when neuro typical say oh you're not normal etc ..its just plain ignorant and a lack of knowledge and understanding. What if the world was all autistic brains with neuro typical in the minority it'd be the other way round then.
So you wouldn’t be sad if your son never has friends or a partner, like many of us?