Can anyone suggest why the "professionals" bother to put us through the assessment process, and give us a diagnosis, when all it comes down to is "you're officially crap with people, you have more problems than you thought & while there's some help available you don't qualify because you're too old", and then cutting us loose with no further help? Surely they would be better off spending the money & the time with people (children) they actually can help (or are at least prepared to try & help)?
Has it ever ocurred to you that all those so-called normal people out there, the neuro-typicals, may actually be pretty dysfunctional themselves. They manage to get through an incredible amount of divorce, breaking up their families, taking illegal drugs, petty crime, serious crime, and general bad behaviour. Very few of those people have autism. And consider this: if everyone else is so great at social interaction and dealing with people on a personal, sympathetic, and empathetic way why do most of them sit on the couch at home, glued to their phone screens banging our digital garbage to cyber based 'people' who may not even exist as they present themselves, rather than going down the pub, or to a social function and talking to real flesh and blood people?
I'll tell you why they do that. Because they too have a real problem with other people, but they just want to fit in so they pretend.
Rant over. But I hope that made you feel better. There is no such thing as normal.
Has it ever ocurred to you that all those so-called normal people out there, the neuro-typicals, may actually be pretty dysfunctional themselves. They manage to get through an incredible amount of divorce, breaking up their families, taking illegal drugs, petty crime, serious crime, and general bad behaviour. Very few of those people have autism. And consider this: if everyone else is so great at social interaction and dealing with people on a personal, sympathetic, and empathetic way why do most of them sit on the couch at home, glued to their phone screens banging our digital garbage to cyber based 'people' who may not even exist as they present themselves, rather than going down the pub, or to a social function and talking to real flesh and blood people?
I'll tell you why they do that. Because they too have a real problem with other people, but they just want to fit in so they pretend.
Rant over. But I hope that made you feel better. There is no such thing as normal.
