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18 Oct 2012, 2:40 pm

http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=768446



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18 Oct 2012, 4:38 pm

I just hope it addresses the seeming stereotype: "People who are autistic either can't talk and engage in repetitive movements, or they are high-functioning people like Jane Austen and Carl Sagan." (Carl, from a biography I read, almost certainly on the Spectrum)

Actually, most of us are middle-functioning, just like most people in general. And that's perfectly okay. We have patchy skills, good in some areas and not so good in others. And that also is okay.



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19 Oct 2012, 6:27 am

AardvarkGoodSwimmer wrote:
I just hope it addresses the seeming stereotype: "People who are autistic either can't talk and engage in repetitive movements, or they are high-functioning people like Jane Austen and Carl Sagan." (Carl, from a biography I read, almost certainly on the Spectrum)

Actually, most of us are middle-functioning, just like most people in general. And that's perfectly okay. We have patchy skills, good in some areas and not so good in others. And that also is okay.


Of course not. Hollywood loves it's stereotypes. True autistics, according to Hollywood, are screaming, hooting children who are indistinguishable from your average down syndrome kid.

Then they think High-Functioning Asperger's sufferers are just faking it, trying to play off their nerdiness as a disease. So they call us AssBurgers and everyone laughs. Because we're nerds, we're not real people. We exist to be tormented for their amusement.