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The Autism Deception.

Mr Creature

Cancer doesn't have a "spectrum", and neither does diabetes, they either are or aren't. So why do we give validation to the myth of mental illness, and aspergers/autism? Is being different truly the same as being "mentally ill"? - I don't think so.

I hated school and the institutions, I always considered them to be bad, psychiatry is no exception, I think they're the biggest pill pushing group of crooks going. Always these people want to create problems where there are none in order to make a business and force us into social conformity or so called "normality", well screw society because I aint going to be "normal", because normal means destroying the planet and walking on others without consciousness, and if that's what's normal than I don't want to be part of it, and the psychs say I'm the crazy one, okay then... but I don't think so...

I don't want a job or to be a wage slave, I'm happy to not participate in society, I'd rather just play computer games and pretend the "real" world doesn't exist thanks, or if I'm not allowed then let me find a remote mountain of island to live on because I can't be bother with society, it's fake promises, and lies. Nobody is free, we're all just told that, and nobody is treated fairly, it's the rich and loud spoken who get their way, the rest of us are just cattle, and we don't matter apparently, we're just suppose to conform mindlessly and not complain. If we do complain or say we're tired of the rat race then we're mentally sick apparently, I hate the world, it's well screwed, and I thought I could make a difference here, perhaps I was mentally sick after all. I don't think so though, I think it is the planet which is sick with a disease called humanity. Who's with me?

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  • Sorry, Stephen, I was generalising a bit much there!  Getting ahead of myself and lazily assuming I'd be understood.  I was in a hurry at the time. 

    I agree with you on the whole, but we must be careful not to assume that all aspies have partularly poor people skills.  One of the key traits of the grossly mis- and undiagnosed people who have the female presentation of AS/HFA is that we imitate neurotypical behaviour very well, and this improves over time.  As a child I was excruciatingly shy, and always saying the wrong things, but now, as long as they accept me, I can talk to all kinds of people and get on with them.  I still suffer from all the usual misunderstandings and sensitivities, not to mention anxiety and depression. 

    And it's not merely confined to females. A minority of males on the spectrum can have these traits too, and many are known as polymath-geniuses - such as Newton and Einstein, Georgina Cavendish (Duchess of Devonshire), Simone Weil, and many more - all very likely to have been Aspies.  One from the list you linked would be Henry Thoreau.  These last three had no people problems and were politically active - although all were seen as 'eccentric'. Often the high intelligence distracts psychiatry from the underlying cause and difficulties. This type of autism is so neglected (thanks to out-dated criteria and thinking) that, unless we see an expert in this area, even the average autism specialist is prone to misdiagnose us, often with BPD - the shoddy catch-all diagnosis for women who don't quite fit in.  Most women diagnosed with BPD probably actually have 'female-type' AS. (This partly explains the skewed male:female AS diagnosis figures).

    Giftedness, especially intellectual giftedness, depends on two key autistic traits - extreme conscientiousness and a wide 'associative horizon'.  It also requires very high intelligence - but if extremely high this becomes an impediment.  So what I'm saying is that the world could be far better run by highly intelligent and wise people who are gifted in this way.  Extreme empathy, a strong sense of in/justice, honesty and loyalty are included among their traits. How many of today's politicians show these qualities?

    I'd sooner live under a benign dictatorship than under present-day democracy where leaders and governments are far from benign.

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  • Sorry, Stephen, I was generalising a bit much there!  Getting ahead of myself and lazily assuming I'd be understood.  I was in a hurry at the time. 

    I agree with you on the whole, but we must be careful not to assume that all aspies have partularly poor people skills.  One of the key traits of the grossly mis- and undiagnosed people who have the female presentation of AS/HFA is that we imitate neurotypical behaviour very well, and this improves over time.  As a child I was excruciatingly shy, and always saying the wrong things, but now, as long as they accept me, I can talk to all kinds of people and get on with them.  I still suffer from all the usual misunderstandings and sensitivities, not to mention anxiety and depression. 

    And it's not merely confined to females. A minority of males on the spectrum can have these traits too, and many are known as polymath-geniuses - such as Newton and Einstein, Georgina Cavendish (Duchess of Devonshire), Simone Weil, and many more - all very likely to have been Aspies.  One from the list you linked would be Henry Thoreau.  These last three had no people problems and were politically active - although all were seen as 'eccentric'. Often the high intelligence distracts psychiatry from the underlying cause and difficulties. This type of autism is so neglected (thanks to out-dated criteria and thinking) that, unless we see an expert in this area, even the average autism specialist is prone to misdiagnose us, often with BPD - the shoddy catch-all diagnosis for women who don't quite fit in.  Most women diagnosed with BPD probably actually have 'female-type' AS. (This partly explains the skewed male:female AS diagnosis figures).

    Giftedness, especially intellectual giftedness, depends on two key autistic traits - extreme conscientiousness and a wide 'associative horizon'.  It also requires very high intelligence - but if extremely high this becomes an impediment.  So what I'm saying is that the world could be far better run by highly intelligent and wise people who are gifted in this way.  Extreme empathy, a strong sense of in/justice, honesty and loyalty are included among their traits. How many of today's politicians show these qualities?

    I'd sooner live under a benign dictatorship than under present-day democracy where leaders and governments are far from benign.

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