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All Humans have Autistic traits

David

This Morning I heard Simon Baron  Cohen  say that we all have Autistic traits just that Autsitic people have it more than others.

It is wrong to make out that Autistic people all the time cannot read other peoples minds and people who do not have Autism can always do so.

Especially people at the top end of the Spectrum can sometimes read peoples minds better than so called NTS.

They were discussing the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon which is going to be on at the National Theatre as a play.

This is a play about a boy who was supposed to be Autistic.

What  I like about that play is that it is the father who was the criminal shooting the dog.

David

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  • I heard this, it was on Radio 4 - they always wheel him out when they want views on autism and he always spiels the same NT crap!

     

    I don't like him, I think he stereotypes autistic people and I think he has very little understanding what it is like to live with this condition.

    I turned it off because I was getting too wound up so missed the end of it.

     

    But it underlines to me the way people, like me, are treated when we are autisitic - others (I mean most NT's by this) have this inane desire to have to box everybody in a way they can understand and make massive assumptions about someone with a diagnosis of an ASD. Each and every person on this planet is different in some way, no two of us are exactly the same and those of us with ASD are just the same in that we are all individual and our autism will present itself in unique ways.

     

    Although there are times I struggle with some of my traits, I am actually proud be be autistic and what I have achieved in my life and am now learning to ignore the ignorants of this world who think they know stuff they don't.

     

    Someone came into the shop where I work last week and I over heard her say to her son that if he didn't work hard at school this was the sort of job he would end up with. I took the courage to say to the lady that I have a Masters degree and 2 post graduate certificates but I work in this job because I have autism and cannot get a job anywhere else so it isn't fair to judge someone based on their employment.  She apologised and and said she had no idea, she just assumed... and therein lies the problem with society and the likes of the BBC (who I dislike intesnsely) and even some Dr's - they all assume too much.

     

    Just because I am autistic, it doesn't make me less of a person or citizen, it makes me different and actually massively talented in some ways (I am gifted with loads of numbers stuff and mathematics).

     

    Well I've gone on a bit but you get what I mean - let's stop listening to the so called experts and educate the NT's ourselves about the reality of living with autism (the hard bits and the good bits).  And one more thing, being autisitc IS NOT an illness, it is who I am and I get fed up of people telling me I need curing. I wouldn't be me if I wasn't autistic, it makes me who I am so stop telling mke I have a problem and accept me as I am!

     

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  • I heard this, it was on Radio 4 - they always wheel him out when they want views on autism and he always spiels the same NT crap!

     

    I don't like him, I think he stereotypes autistic people and I think he has very little understanding what it is like to live with this condition.

    I turned it off because I was getting too wound up so missed the end of it.

     

    But it underlines to me the way people, like me, are treated when we are autisitic - others (I mean most NT's by this) have this inane desire to have to box everybody in a way they can understand and make massive assumptions about someone with a diagnosis of an ASD. Each and every person on this planet is different in some way, no two of us are exactly the same and those of us with ASD are just the same in that we are all individual and our autism will present itself in unique ways.

     

    Although there are times I struggle with some of my traits, I am actually proud be be autistic and what I have achieved in my life and am now learning to ignore the ignorants of this world who think they know stuff they don't.

     

    Someone came into the shop where I work last week and I over heard her say to her son that if he didn't work hard at school this was the sort of job he would end up with. I took the courage to say to the lady that I have a Masters degree and 2 post graduate certificates but I work in this job because I have autism and cannot get a job anywhere else so it isn't fair to judge someone based on their employment.  She apologised and and said she had no idea, she just assumed... and therein lies the problem with society and the likes of the BBC (who I dislike intesnsely) and even some Dr's - they all assume too much.

     

    Just because I am autistic, it doesn't make me less of a person or citizen, it makes me different and actually massively talented in some ways (I am gifted with loads of numbers stuff and mathematics).

     

    Well I've gone on a bit but you get what I mean - let's stop listening to the so called experts and educate the NT's ourselves about the reality of living with autism (the hard bits and the good bits).  And one more thing, being autisitc IS NOT an illness, it is who I am and I get fed up of people telling me I need curing. I wouldn't be me if I wasn't autistic, it makes me who I am so stop telling mke I have a problem and accept me as I am!

     

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