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Autism, it’s just a 6 letter word.

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I’m trying to open up a discussion as I’m confused.

I’ve been attending some support sessions and some people celebrate being diagnosed autistic and have a party.

Now thats upto them, their choice.

I know it’s me that needs to see things differently but I find this really difficult to understand at the minute.

All the issues lifelong I have.

Lets just pretend autism wasn't named autism for a minute, after all it’s just a word somebody has put to a set of behaviours etc, let’s say it’s called an apple sandwich instead. 

So let’s just say you’re called Julie and I said “ Right Julie, you are just being born again, would you want to walk up and down the street repeatedly back and forth, touching hedges, gates, fences,  or would you want to not have to do this”

There’s surely not a person alive who would say they want to be born and do that and be an apple sandwich. 

Thats just one behaviour/aspect, there’s plenty more but just one example.

Autism is just a word it’s the things that you seem compelled to do I hate. 

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  • Obviously opinions vary, some say autism defines them, others say they won’t let it define them. For me putting a name to my condition was life saving. I had gone through decades of not knowing who or what I was, I had got to the point of checking out.

    To actually know I’m not broken or faulty is everything, I never knew there was others like me, that in itself is still mind blowing. It is very similar to finding your tribe, I don’t celebrate autism, it just describes how I function.

    What any uneducated person thinks of me is irrelevant, my reply is “Whatever, don’t let the door hit you on the ar*e on your way out.”


    I’ve never been neurotypical so I don’t know if it’s any better, I wouldn’t be me, my personality would be totally different. I don’t think they have a brilliant time of it, they seem to be noisy and arguing most of the time.

    I won’t pretend life is brilliant, it’s not, I am now able to get by, so for that reason I will not put autism in Room 101.

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  • Obviously opinions vary, some say autism defines them, others say they won’t let it define them. For me putting a name to my condition was life saving. I had gone through decades of not knowing who or what I was, I had got to the point of checking out.

    To actually know I’m not broken or faulty is everything, I never knew there was others like me, that in itself is still mind blowing. It is very similar to finding your tribe, I don’t celebrate autism, it just describes how I function.

    What any uneducated person thinks of me is irrelevant, my reply is “Whatever, don’t let the door hit you on the ar*e on your way out.”


    I’ve never been neurotypical so I don’t know if it’s any better, I wouldn’t be me, my personality would be totally different. I don’t think they have a brilliant time of it, they seem to be noisy and arguing most of the time.

    I won’t pretend life is brilliant, it’s not, I am now able to get by, so for that reason I will not put autism in Room 101.

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