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Should intervention for ASD be centred on ‘normalcy’ or ‘enjoyment’?

DeSpereaux

I don’t believe that I want to flesh this description out too-much, because I don’t want to distract from peoples’ thoughts on the matter, I’m just interest to see want people subjectively or objectively think. 

What are the negatives of either? What are the positives of either? What is the community focus on?

I have been reading autism-literature, finding like-minded people, and talking to professionals for a while now. I still don’t really understand where I expect my diagnosis to take me, I don’t really know how to make my attempts at enjoyment or equalisation marketable. I don’t really think that everybody in society has the same goals when it comes to autism.

The one concrete thing that I do know, is that autism doesn’t have enough awareness, and that autism doesn’t have enough heads in its community. So I am only sure that we need more screening, we need to widen the bottom of the pyramid, but for what end ’normalcy’ or ‘enjoyment’ and why..?

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  • While I am out in the community and masking, I always seem to believe that I am arguing for the sake of normalcy and a fair-trial as-it-were, but the opposite is true when I am with my own thoughts when am alone I lament for and promote pursuit of enjoyment..

    Normalcy I think is what all people are entitled to, because everybody deserves opportunity, I believe it unfair to be entitled to an positive-outcome. I also feel a little guilt when I am talking to others, as I feel as if I am afraid to open myself up to ideological confrontation, so maybe I settle for normalcy because I find that I am inferior when it comes to rhetoric. 
    So that begs the question of whether we need help also with the pursuit of our enjoyment, when others do not, both because we are impaired and because we are on a non-standard journey altogether..

    But on the other hand, we have the question of whether we are securing an outcome for ourselves, ahead of the struggle for enjoyment that we all must be allowed to temper ourselves under...

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  • While I am out in the community and masking, I always seem to believe that I am arguing for the sake of normalcy and a fair-trial as-it-were, but the opposite is true when I am with my own thoughts when am alone I lament for and promote pursuit of enjoyment..

    Normalcy I think is what all people are entitled to, because everybody deserves opportunity, I believe it unfair to be entitled to an positive-outcome. I also feel a little guilt when I am talking to others, as I feel as if I am afraid to open myself up to ideological confrontation, so maybe I settle for normalcy because I find that I am inferior when it comes to rhetoric. 
    So that begs the question of whether we need help also with the pursuit of our enjoyment, when others do not, both because we are impaired and because we are on a non-standard journey altogether..

    But on the other hand, we have the question of whether we are securing an outcome for ourselves, ahead of the struggle for enjoyment that we all must be allowed to temper ourselves under...

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