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The things NT believe about us

stranger

I feel like banging my head against a brick wall.

Over the weekend, I have discovered that NTs believe the following things about us:

- we can't get married and form serious relationships. Those who do, were wrongly diagnosed

- we're all good at maths. Apparently, if someone has a maths degree, that automatically means they're on the spectrum. I can think of at least one NT with a degree in maths and computing science. (to my knowledge he's NT and he doesn't seem like an Aspie in anyway)

Anyone know where these bizzare myths come from? I was told I have no idea what I was talking about when I said we could have meaningful relationships. When I asked for their evidence, they couldn't provide any.

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  • stranger said:
    Following on from my first post, it appears that some people on the spectrum believe this rubbish too.

    When will people understand it's a spectrum, and that whilst some are good at maths, not all of us are?

    At the risk of banging on about my recent qEEG, it even showed up that I have problems with maths due to my brain connections (or lack thereof).  And I quote:

    "The parietal region where we observe excess beta activity is highly involved in spatial attention, that is disengaging, moving and re-engaging spatial attention.  It can affect numerical processing (maths) as well as..."

    So people that have this misperception about us all being autistic mathematical genuises are plain wrong.

    This is about overall ignorance to autism as a condition.  This is why the government needs to make some adverts or something to put autism in the public eye and dispel myths, make realise how many of us there are and we are as diverse as neurotypicals.  Professionals also need to see us as people with individual personalities and understand that even though we do some things, it can be at great cost to us to do so, we manage them with huge personal challenge and can have lasting after-effects from doing them.  It's not enough to say "well, you got to your appointment" they have to look deeper.  Until they stop merely matching traits up to a checklist and accept that there is a lot more to us than that list of traits they won't ever get it.

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  • stranger said:
    Following on from my first post, it appears that some people on the spectrum believe this rubbish too.

    When will people understand it's a spectrum, and that whilst some are good at maths, not all of us are?

    At the risk of banging on about my recent qEEG, it even showed up that I have problems with maths due to my brain connections (or lack thereof).  And I quote:

    "The parietal region where we observe excess beta activity is highly involved in spatial attention, that is disengaging, moving and re-engaging spatial attention.  It can affect numerical processing (maths) as well as..."

    So people that have this misperception about us all being autistic mathematical genuises are plain wrong.

    This is about overall ignorance to autism as a condition.  This is why the government needs to make some adverts or something to put autism in the public eye and dispel myths, make realise how many of us there are and we are as diverse as neurotypicals.  Professionals also need to see us as people with individual personalities and understand that even though we do some things, it can be at great cost to us to do so, we manage them with huge personal challenge and can have lasting after-effects from doing them.  It's not enough to say "well, you got to your appointment" they have to look deeper.  Until they stop merely matching traits up to a checklist and accept that there is a lot more to us than that list of traits they won't ever get it.

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