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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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    Your posts are exceptionally rich in personal life experiences and
    personal interpretations of what it means to have autism. My point was simply
    that, like myself, being very much at the able end, you cannot really
    visualise what it is like to have more marked autism traits, Many people
    posting on here have very great difficulty day to day with making themselves
    understood, or understanding what is going on around them. They have to avoid
    many environments because it is painful for them. They really are having
    trouble getting jobs and holding them down because others can see they look
    different. Their circumstances aren't likely to be made better by having gone
    to a good school or having the right attitude, and their parents likely tried
    to do everything possible for them.

    Firstly, thanks for the compliments, they are appreciated.

    I have been reading stuff on this forum for the last 2 years, I have met the others at the post diagnostic group and the local autism support service. I have heard the stories from my own relatives of cruelty, abuse and neglect. I can also see that individual's fortunes are significantly affected by the school that they went to, by their parents' abilities, knowledge and perception (or lack of it). I can see that there are good schools with caring and compassionate teachers and other schools that are frankly poisonous and dangerous to children with autism.

    Circumstances can be cruel but people also have choices to change their circumstances, to look up and identify things that can be changed. People's choices are always going to be constrained by resources but choices are there, every single day for people to make their lives different, better in some way or other. People can change their own attitudes and the endings to their own lives. I have seen this happen. In my mind at this moment is one individual in particular who had the worst start in life but was picked out of the bin by the NHS and now has a completely different prospect for the rest of his life. The system can do amazing things but it is human and fallible and patchy and that needs people to campaign for improvements.

    People really must be encouraged to make the most of what choices that they can find. For some, this will still leave them with a hard life on benefits at the margins but every small step up can make one feel more satsified and content with life.

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    Former Member

    Your posts are exceptionally rich in personal life experiences and
    personal interpretations of what it means to have autism. My point was simply
    that, like myself, being very much at the able end, you cannot really
    visualise what it is like to have more marked autism traits, Many people
    posting on here have very great difficulty day to day with making themselves
    understood, or understanding what is going on around them. They have to avoid
    many environments because it is painful for them. They really are having
    trouble getting jobs and holding them down because others can see they look
    different. Their circumstances aren't likely to be made better by having gone
    to a good school or having the right attitude, and their parents likely tried
    to do everything possible for them.

    Firstly, thanks for the compliments, they are appreciated.

    I have been reading stuff on this forum for the last 2 years, I have met the others at the post diagnostic group and the local autism support service. I have heard the stories from my own relatives of cruelty, abuse and neglect. I can also see that individual's fortunes are significantly affected by the school that they went to, by their parents' abilities, knowledge and perception (or lack of it). I can see that there are good schools with caring and compassionate teachers and other schools that are frankly poisonous and dangerous to children with autism.

    Circumstances can be cruel but people also have choices to change their circumstances, to look up and identify things that can be changed. People's choices are always going to be constrained by resources but choices are there, every single day for people to make their lives different, better in some way or other. People can change their own attitudes and the endings to their own lives. I have seen this happen. In my mind at this moment is one individual in particular who had the worst start in life but was picked out of the bin by the NHS and now has a completely different prospect for the rest of his life. The system can do amazing things but it is human and fallible and patchy and that needs people to campaign for improvements.

    People really must be encouraged to make the most of what choices that they can find. For some, this will still leave them with a hard life on benefits at the margins but every small step up can make one feel more satsified and content with life.

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