Wondering

Golf23 said:

At school I was told I had low self-esteem and given counselling, then I was told I had anger issues and had counselling. I was never angry just frustrated with everything, I didn't understand so much and it confused and scared me, and I would get frustrated at homework and there was never any help at home.

This was my experience. Only I'm near my late 40s and at 27 started a journey toward recovery from the trauma of all these unknown factors. I wouldn't even find out about the Autism Spectrum until I was about 40. Even still - left puzzled and told all the typical things therapists far behind the research would say, sending me toward self-help, as surely I seemed intelligent enough?

Unfortunately, NeuroTypical wiring has been a sort of gatekeeper and their motives entirely different stuck at a cognitive bias. The research has actually been around for nearly a century. But a large part of it has been ignored or dismissed - some, like the anti-psychiatry movement, blatantly stating that society is the problem. A Psychoanalyst theorised that the Autistic-Analytic way of thinking would be the ideal way to actually help the Neurotic (Neurotypical) find a cure to their neurosis. (Schizoanalysis)

It is frustrating. Things are only just now changing, but I'd suggest the current model of society hit a threshold for Autists at the point that LEDs became mandatory. In the past 5 years the sensory output is over a human limit and it's everywhere. Sirens are louder and Americanised (thanks to media), tones have gone digital so their piercing rather than a stack of harmonics. Schools aren't properly ventilated, chemical scents are over powering. NT behaviour has changed drastically with consumerism. These shifts in society have created a chasm - or a distinct separation, like oil and water. When I was in school I recall a little more humanity from my teachers. 

Golf23 said:

At school I was told I had low self-esteem and given counselling, then I was told I had anger issues and had counselling. I was never angry just frustrated with everything, I didn't understand so much and it confused and scared me, and I would get frustrated at homework and there was never any help at home.

This was my experience. Only I'm near my late 40s and at 27 started a journey toward recovery from the trauma of all these unknown factors. I wouldn't even find out about the Autism Spectrum until I was about 40. Even still - left puzzled and told all the typical things therapists far behind the research would say, sending me toward self-help, as surely I seemed intelligent enough?

Unfortunately, NeuroTypical wiring has been a sort of gatekeeper and their motives entirely different stuck at a cognitive bias. The research has actually been around for nearly a century. But a large part of it has been ignored or dismissed - some, like the anti-psychiatry movement, blatantly stating that society is the problem. A Psychoanalyst theorised that the Autistic-Analytic way of thinking would be the ideal way to actually help the Neurotic (Neurotypical) find a cure to their neurosis. (Schizoanalysis)

It is frustrating. Things are only just now changing, but I'd suggest the current model of society hit a threshold for Autists at the point that LEDs became mandatory. In the past 5 years the sensory output is over a human limit and it's everywhere. Sirens are louder and Americanised (thanks to media), tones have gone digital so their piercing rather than a stack of harmonics. Schools aren't properly ventilated, chemical scents are over powering. NT behaviour has changed drastically with consumerism. These shifts in society have created a chasm - or a distinct separation, like oil and water. When I was in school I recall a little more humanity from my teachers.