Recently, I have been thinking about how negative neurotic behaviours seem, so often, to be intrinsically linked to people's autistic identities. It seems that the threads on this forum are dominated by negative experiences, hardships, and overwhelming emotions. People often describe negative states of mind as if they are fixed aspects of an autistic identity.
As a Buddhist, I practice transforming negative emotions through meditation. I sometimes wonder to what extent autism fits with the idea of Buddhism. As an autistic person, do I just have more negativity to work with? And (hypothetically) if I were to transform all my negativity and become enlightened, would I still be autistic? What would an enlightened autistic person look like?
