Published on 12, July, 2020
I've been wanting to write this for about three years pretty much ever since I joined the forum, but thought it might be a bit triggering for some.
Now I'm on moderation I guess, IS the time to do it, because if I say anything that is wrongspeak, then at least it might get filtered before I upset anyone.
This thought was triggered many, many years ago when my child was not in her thirties, and we were watching a cartoon and the villain of the piece started to talk about his frustrating life and upbringing etc. and I recognised my own circumstances! All the things that cartoon villain (and many more screen villains before him) described had been a part of my upbringing, and I'd felt the urge to crush, kill, destroy just like they report, but in my case I found that sort of thing to be really unsatisfying and not the life I wanted to lead lead (or role I wanted to pay?) So evil villainly became a part of my character rather than the whole thing.
Now to be honest, there are some people here, who lack my ineffably sunny disposition ( Oh that's funny! One of my best..) and may actually be bad guys, but would they know it? Certainly my experience is some of the worst things I've done, I was quite convinced were righteous at the time...
Then there's the way N.T's react to us and then interact with us.
Do THEY see us as the good guys?.
I find this unsettling to contemplate, but today as I read some current events that are happening in the states, where much is being made of the perpetrators Autism diagnosis, and see the discussion starting to happen in "mainstream" (by my standards) media I think we ought to ask oursleves some searching questions about the nature of Autism and have asome answers ready for anyone who ask before we get further marginalised as a group.
The real villains of history have most definitely been allistic. This is because they all (Hitler, Stalin, Attila, Genghis Khan etc.) have shown highly developed skills in understanding, inspiring and manipulating people as individuals and in masses, skills that autistics typically lack any vestiges of.
Phew, good to know. I thought the Austrian corporal was looking a bit "spergy" to me, and I'm happy to be corrected!
So. Have there been any outstandingly GOOD Autists we can think of?
Chris Packham.
Thankyou Mark. I'm glad someone agrees with me. I sometimes think I am going insane.
What I do to resolve this is to try and uncomplicate people and understand them better so they are no longer complicating. Yes most humans are good but some are not. Evil is a strong word though I have never met anyone that was truly evil. Sometimes us autistic people think others are evil for ‘excluding’ us or not talking to us. But it’s not that people just get the wrong impression. They think we want to be left alone.
Free speech is a such a tricky one. As a liberal, I am mostly for it, but have my limits (probably the same limits as you). What annoys me is that free speech absolutists seem to be the quickest to shut down any free speech that disagrees with their views and they completely miss the irony. EM is meant to be very guilty of this. I've not read into it too much, though.
Humans are complicated. Animals too I think. I wonder if there are autists in the animal kingdom?Chris is definitely one of the good autistics. Some people will tell you that there is no good and evil in the world. Probably most people actually. But I think that humans are capable of both.
It’s a shame because Chris packham feels more connected to birds (the animals) than he does to other humans because he is so shy. How sad in my opinion. He loves kestrel birds but they’re not quite the same as people are they?
Chris packham is very shy. Did you know that he used to be jealous as a 20 something year old that all the other 20 year olds at college were going to parties and having fun but he never got invited. He felt excluded. His girlfriend said it was difficult to tell if he actually wanted anything from her. It seemed like he just wanted to be friends with her. He didn’t pursue her like other men maybe he never had the courage to do so. Poor guy. He really had a tough life.
https://www.liberties.eu/en/stories/free-speech-absolutist/44213Further reading.
Yes. I no longer believe in free speech absolutism because of the way speech is used by bad actors. Absolute free speech has not existed in the uk for 50 years. I don't want to return to the 1970's where people can say anything they want with no fear of consequences. Even in the USA, you cannot shout fire in a public theatre.