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Are You or Your Children Victimized by Stereotypes?

Daniel

I find stereotypes so concerning as they prevent autistic people being accepted and understood leading to mistreatment like bullying, verbal or physical, with some even both verbally and physically.

On another autistic community there's autistic people or people pretending to be autistic promoting the stereotypes. People like parents who want to come to an understanding of Autism are likely to believe autistic people making them believe the stereotypes are true. 

One of the most common concerns I see parents have is their children being bullied because of their autism. From what I've seen some people even try to fit the stereotypes once diagnosed with autism, so some have gone from wanting to communicate and interact with others to being introverted because there's the stereotype autistic people are introverted. 

I can safely assume the rejection because of the stereotypes makes autistic children, and even some adults start feeling hopeless, worthless thinking they have no place in this world, I find it so concerning for thwarted belonging leads to suicidal thoughts.

Parents

  • I'm not sure it's as simple as that - there's a time and measurement factor - kids start to notice they are different - they don't interface properly with the other kids and they can often be gauche in their attempts to make friends and become upset from the rejections.

    There's also the learning phase - where kids seeing how others like them can be much more extreme in their behaviours - and get away with it - it removes their own boundaries of behaviour - the appear more autistic.

    I don't think it's down to stereotypes, it's down to an individual environment and their experiences.

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  • I'm not sure it's as simple as that - there's a time and measurement factor - kids start to notice they are different - they don't interface properly with the other kids and they can often be gauche in their attempts to make friends and become upset from the rejections.

    There's also the learning phase - where kids seeing how others like them can be much more extreme in their behaviours - and get away with it - it removes their own boundaries of behaviour - the appear more autistic.

    I don't think it's down to stereotypes, it's down to an individual environment and their experiences.

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  • in reply to Plastic

    I can say not all are affected by stereotypes, I'm talking about all the way to adulthood after the learning process as well as children.

    Like I've listened to some say their siblings feel ashamed to tell people they're autistic because they fear people will make assumptions about them and call them retarded.

    I imagine the people who actually go by stereotypes like lack of empathy are those who have no personal experience involving autism.

    Thanks for sharing your views.