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Does autism exist?

Autistic Not Alien

Of course it does, though I had the misfortune of listening to someone proclaim their lack of belief a few weeks ago. Here’s my response:[edited by moderator]

  • in reply to Alien0n3arth

    Hi Alienated 

    I would also like to say please don’t ever think that you bother people. You in particular have made me very welcome and given me some advice and encouragement in the past. I had a very similar day yesterday, I was thinking about my son’s therapist as I believe she has some kind of illness. I was in tears for such a big part of yesterday, I don’t know where it came from but it really bothered me. I wish I didn’t care as much as I do as these things cost me in energy and I genuinely feel such sadness. 

    Hope you are feeling better now? 

  • in reply to Autistic Not Alien

    You are welcome! The quotation is very thought provoking as is the entire Aucademy YouTube channel.

  • in reply to Ausomely Autistic

    Thank you for taking the time to explain. Food for thought.

  • in reply to Autistic Not Alien

    This quote in the picture above is basically stating that ‘autism’ is only a concept, a pathologising description of our autistic community which has only existed since the 1930’s, whereas our autistic community has existed and evolved throughout history. Autistic people have always existed without autism ever existing.

    Also, the quote highlights that ‘autism’ as a thing is very different to lived autistic experiences. ‘Autism’  is a list of deficits (as described in the incredibly flawed DSM) whereas our autistic experiences are instead a different way of being human and experiencing the world. Using language such as autistic or autistic experiences helps avoid talking about our community as a subject and instead focusing on the similarities and differences between our communication style, sensory experience, monotropic cognition, emotional expression etc

    Does this make sense?

    Here is a video which goes into more detail about the important distinction between autism and autistic experiences:

    https://www.youtube.com/live/YliO_uxSm-Q?si=6ltf3rpaOaHgvtb_

  • in reply to Autistic Not Alien

    Opinions about gravity are indeed irrelevant, Ideas on the other hand, could lead us to some really, really, interesting toys, of which yer proper "flying car" is just the start.

    "Flat earth and no moon landings" people are the very definition of "red herrings". They are nastiily "deep" distortions of reality too. Just try and pick a fight with one of the more organised flat earthers, they can produce an absolute torrent of information and evidence to back up their claims. I had to devise my own test to disprove flat earth conclusively. You know you've won, when they won't answer your point even after you've presented it a half dozen differnt ways...

    People don't know very much at all, they don't think very deeply or clearly, hell most people have to outsource their thinking to the crowd, the idiot box or a Cult, just to get through the day.

    Of the tiny few who really cannot stop thinking, a goodly percentage of those try to dull their minds (and hence the pain) with drink or drugs or "medicine" (different drugs).

    For the rest of you, consider this:

    The force of gravity is not an outside thing at all, it's an internal nuclear force produced in every proton (which is itself a seething ball of moving quarks, and also a component of the Neutron) in response to an external stimulus. 

    Sadly I do not as of yet understand exactly HOW a time variant electromagnetic field produces a linear vector kinetic force, but there are plenty of bodies of work that when aggregated over 2 decades of of fairly hard work and LOTs of emails to idiots, crafty people, recogised luminaries in the field, and straight people like me who are just working the problem out of interest, suggest that the stimulus field that causes all my protons to want to move downards (the reaction to the stimulus) is a product of earth being charged at 14 million volts with respect to space with a dietectric (the atmosphere) mediating that charge. 

    All that is hypothesis and specualtion, howver by using about 2Kg worth of bits and pieces,  I can build a thing that weigs 3 grammes and make it weigh minus 1.5 grammes. The world record is a huge structure that will lift 64 grammes, a mouse by the name of orville. Still a LONG way away from lifting it's own power supply...     

  • in reply to Cat Loving Man

    Indeed. I think it's like having an opinion on gravity - i.e. utterly irrelevant.

  • in reply to Alien0n3arth

    Thank you for sharing the article. Please don't feel you're ever bothering people with your 'nonsense', and please keep sharing here.

  • https://www.abtaba.com/blog/autism-overdiagnosed#%23max-widget

    i Found interesting article. Yes, autism exists and it’s very important to recognize it on time. Today I feel so sad, like I want to cry because I feel that I need a psychologist but I have a feeling that I would have bother them with my nonsense. Sorry, just wanted to share together with the article that made me cry

  • Denying autism is nonsense probably the same group that say the world is flat and there was no moon landing !

  • in reply to Ausomely Autistic

    I prefer 'autistic person' over 'person with autism', though I'm not sure what you're trying to prove with the picture.