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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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    longman said:

    It hurts me to see you giving out inappropriate advice all the time as if your experience of autism is valid for everyone else. When I was posting on here I often prefaced my posts saying I'm probably mild and cannot be sure of giving accurate advice. I feel you should exercise similar caution. Lots of people posting on here have very severe difficulties. I am in awe of their pain and their valour.

    I don't mean to hurt anyone and I am sorry that you feel hurt. I try to pepper my posts with words like "may have", "it seems to me", "in some cases", "my understanding is", "potentially", "I think that", "I might be mistaken" [I have picked out phrases that I have used in this thread]

    I would also observe that I have autism and may not be terribly good at estimating the impact of what I write. Equally, someone with autismm reading this may take it in a very different way to the way I intended it, for example if their thinking is too loaded with "binary-like" thought processes.

    In my opinion, there can be no such thing as accurate advice that will work for anyone with autism. The phrase "your mileage may vary" applies to any advice given or accepted on a discussion forum like this and I do not claim to have The Answer, I can only offer my experience and ideas that have worked for me to some extent.

    In my opinion: an important aspect of ones happiness with a condition like this is the attitude that you can add to your own individual circumstances and diagnosis etc. I regard autism as one part of me that sits alongside intelligence, determination, education luck, my upbringing and all of the other slings and arrows of fortune. We are dealt a hand of cards but we always have some choice in how we tackle the problems that we face.

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    longman said:

    It hurts me to see you giving out inappropriate advice all the time as if your experience of autism is valid for everyone else. When I was posting on here I often prefaced my posts saying I'm probably mild and cannot be sure of giving accurate advice. I feel you should exercise similar caution. Lots of people posting on here have very severe difficulties. I am in awe of their pain and their valour.

    I don't mean to hurt anyone and I am sorry that you feel hurt. I try to pepper my posts with words like "may have", "it seems to me", "in some cases", "my understanding is", "potentially", "I think that", "I might be mistaken" [I have picked out phrases that I have used in this thread]

    I would also observe that I have autism and may not be terribly good at estimating the impact of what I write. Equally, someone with autismm reading this may take it in a very different way to the way I intended it, for example if their thinking is too loaded with "binary-like" thought processes.

    In my opinion, there can be no such thing as accurate advice that will work for anyone with autism. The phrase "your mileage may vary" applies to any advice given or accepted on a discussion forum like this and I do not claim to have The Answer, I can only offer my experience and ideas that have worked for me to some extent.

    In my opinion: an important aspect of ones happiness with a condition like this is the attitude that you can add to your own individual circumstances and diagnosis etc. I regard autism as one part of me that sits alongside intelligence, determination, education luck, my upbringing and all of the other slings and arrows of fortune. We are dealt a hand of cards but we always have some choice in how we tackle the problems that we face.

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