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How do you describe Autism?

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I identify with these points that Wendel1994 wrote:

"I can study how other people who are not on the spectrum live and compare it to my life and see what is different, and the fact, no matter how hard I try to get what they have, it never feels right, it feels like an awkward replica of what they have..... people with autism are different and mine is as far from who I am as possible! Autism is not my personality, my true personality cannot be let out as it is being weighed down"

I have recently come up with an idea of how to explain what autism is. I think of our brains as computers which are not connected to the mainframe of society, like NT brains are. I see NT brains as being part of an interconnected web, like the world wide web, but we don't have the correct software to connect to it. This means they can't read our "code" either and so often fail to understand us. I've often been frustrated by well meaning people who think they know me, when they really don't. And I'm a fairly well adapted female Aspie who is assumed to be an NT by most people.

But I think that autism may encourage individual thought and development, often giving us insights and skills which NTs don't have. (Star Trek fans - think of Seven of Nine and her struggles to become a free thinking individual). 

Maybe our society, in it's struggle to become less prejudiced against people who are a different colour, race, religion, etc has promoted an idea that we're really all the same under the outward appearance. Of course, treating people badly because they are different to "the norm" is totally wrong, but treating everyone as if they are the same seems to me to be the way to stifle individual development and creative thought. 

What do you think?

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  • NAS20054 said:

    I wish to re-emphasise this and stress this point too.

    I have written at length about this in one of my previous posts.

    There are two sides to the coin; an offender and an offendee.

    The offendee is often the bad person, where the person is not justified in being offended.

    The offendee is sometime responsible for deciding to be offended, but they place the accussations and blame on the offender for doing the offending.

    Offense is then in the eye of the beholder.

    ( I am not talking about N words and such, but other benign communications an offendee may disagree with in any conflict situation. )

    I agree, Aspergerix, and I suppose 'the acid test' is whether someone was using a term in a pre-meditated sarcastic way designed to denegrate or humiliate others, or as a reference made within an objective discussion. The fact is, human beings can make connections that are not really there when hysteria takes over and then it's impossible to cultivate an atmosphere of free exchanges, something akin to the hysteria found in times of political and religious fervor, such, for example, as the Spanish Inquistion or The French Revolution, etc. 

    I'm all for political correctness as long as it is correct for everyone.

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  • NAS20054 said:

    I wish to re-emphasise this and stress this point too.

    I have written at length about this in one of my previous posts.

    There are two sides to the coin; an offender and an offendee.

    The offendee is often the bad person, where the person is not justified in being offended.

    The offendee is sometime responsible for deciding to be offended, but they place the accussations and blame on the offender for doing the offending.

    Offense is then in the eye of the beholder.

    ( I am not talking about N words and such, but other benign communications an offendee may disagree with in any conflict situation. )

    I agree, Aspergerix, and I suppose 'the acid test' is whether someone was using a term in a pre-meditated sarcastic way designed to denegrate or humiliate others, or as a reference made within an objective discussion. The fact is, human beings can make connections that are not really there when hysteria takes over and then it's impossible to cultivate an atmosphere of free exchanges, something akin to the hysteria found in times of political and religious fervor, such, for example, as the Spanish Inquistion or The French Revolution, etc. 

    I'm all for political correctness as long as it is correct for everyone.

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