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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.

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  • It depends on the context. Stereotyping is a fundamental part of human development. When we are born our brains are hardwired to instantly group together similar visual and auditory stimuli; the brain has a facial-recognition area which is programmed to judge others by how they look.

    Our survival depended upon it, once upon a time, because the ability to instantly discern between wild animals with big teeth and people with small teeth (and then between people from our own tribe, species and outsiders) was imperative for our survival.

    As adults, w    e jump to conclusions about a person’s character and status after seeing their face for just a tenth of a second. Are they friend or foe? Stereotyping is the shortcut that the brain uses to retrieve, compare and analyse stored data (experience) and minimise processing power. 

    news/science-environment-19487021

    newscientist.com/article (partial article)

    The problems begin when we are unable or unwilling to run sub-programs which allow us to use our intelligence and experience to override the essential basic programming of the brain for a more appropriate and nuanced reaction. 

    Some people, sadly, have some bad sub-programs uploaded which make the basic programming even stronger and resistant to intelligence/reason.

    This is how national, political and religious doctrines have been so easily perpetuated for thousands of years, and why people programmed by a particular group have been capable of either committing atrocities against 'others'. 

    These groups rely on building a fire-wall between intelligence and reason and the brain's basic programming, strengthening the latter, and thus being able to direct people in whatever way suits their agenda by reinforcing stereotypes - we are good and those others are bad.

  • in reply to ☕Tassimo ☕

    yes we make judgements in the flash of an eye. this iincludes body language.  When u collect these judgements and analyse them they dont make sense sometimes and can be quite terrifying. 

    It has been shown that black children are marked lower by white teacher compared to their white colleagues.

    but

    It has been shown that black children are marked lower by black teachers compared to their white colleagues as well !

    ( sorry no reference it was a psychology journal )

    way to read your article 

    thanks

  • in reply to aidie

    I apologise. I forgot that the full article was only available vis subscription. 

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