Neuroism

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I've noticed a lot of "neuroism" here. By that I mean people being similar to racists but towards people who think in differant ways. I have friends that are "normal", autistic, schizophrenic, intellegantlly challenged, genious's, chromosomal disorders, all kinds of personality disordered, PTSD, ADHD, insominiacs, dyslexic, have anger management problems, neurotic, pathological liars, multiple personalities, and every other kind of neurodiverse you can imagine. I enjoy hanging out with a diverse selection of differant people. It has taught me a lot about how other people think and I know we can share a lot with each other about how other people perceive things. It also keeps my life very interesting and I sometimes am amazed at the things people do. Sometimes in a good way and sometimes in a bad way. Sometimes I also have my days where I like to just hang out with myself and think or work on music. It is good that everyone thinks differently because it is what keeps the world going with new ideas. I really dont believe in "NT's" because everyone is unique in their own way. It is not good to stereotype other types of thought processes just as you wouldn't want to be stereotyped. If everyone was the same what a boring world it would be. One thing I like the most about our world is how diverse it is. If it wasn't supposed to be that way then it wouldn't be. Sure there are people that ruin things for everyone but someone with autism can ruin things just as much as an "normal person" or anyone else for that matter can. Yea I don't always understand how other people think or feel but thats ok and sometimes I may come off as critical but I dont mean to be, I'm just not always very understanding so when I try to give advise from my point of view sometimes people take it as critism. However people shouldn't put people down for being different from them. I would think someone who has been put down for being different would understand that.

First of all I am not accusing everyone here of discrimination. I am stating my opinion that people should be more tolerant of other peoples thinking. Im not a mental health professional but I am a voluenteer co-facalitor for nami. I susspose I will state that it is ok to also not be tolerant because everyone is entitled to their opinion. As for people I know who are pathological liars, it doesnt bother me because I know what their doing so I dont fall for it. I actually have found some peoples rediculous lies funny. Black people can also be racist too by the way but I am not stereotyping. Anyone can be anything. If there was a spellcheck option on here, which Im not sure if there is or not but I dont think there is, I would use it. I figure people are going to be able to read my misspellings so it would be unnecessary to go through the effort of copying and pasting this back and forth on spellcheck everytime I post. I am also dyslexic/dysgraphic as well so I susspose spellism is a form of neuroism. Thank you for sharing your opinion.

nevermind, I see you deleted your post.

Neuro-typicism topic

To be functionally social is one thing; to worship it is another. Many of us just want enough to get by.

I am not worshiping anything. I think people are misunderstanding my post. Im not stating that people should be different from how they are. Im supporting equality. It seems like people are taking this as if I am stating that I am saying everyone should be the same which is the opposite of what I meant. Like I said in the post, I sometimes come off as critical when Im not trying to be. The point of this post is that it is good to work together with all types of people because I don't think the world would function without different types of people. Im not stating I want to be like everyone else either. I dont. If there wasn't autistic people the world would go to crap in the same way it would if you took out any type of person. Actually I believe that the increase in people having autism is a side effect of an evolving conciousness because the planet is attempting to even out different types of people. By this I am not stating that the world doesn't need non-autistic people either. I realize that without people thinking differently that there wouldn't be new ideas. I wrote this post because I have noticed statements here from people who have had negative experience with other types of people and I wanted people to know that not all non-autistic people are like that although theres nothing wrong with having opinions. Im not trying to make anyone think differently either. I just wanted to share what I think.

Concur.

I don't believe in NT either. I don't believe the ASD spectrum is one dimensional, but multidimensional. Mental illness is also a very common co-morbird so it annoys me when people make out they are some how mutually exclusive.

I tend to refuse to recognise the existence of a homogenous body of "normals" or NTs, and try to see every group as just a menagerie of different people with different abilities, viewpoints, loves, hates, and prejudices. It's much better like that - if I catch myself thinking "they all hate me" then I can remind myself that even in the worst case scenario there will be a spectrum of attitudes towards me......maybe a few of them really do think I'm not worth the paper I'm printed on, but they do not all think as one. So I just seek out the ones who look as if they're prepared to give me a chance, and the rest of them can go play with themselves for all I care.

I do tend to gripe on about the faults of what I call "mainstream society" but I have my doubts as to whether even that really exists. I've seen some rather homogenous groups in my time, but even there, not everybody toes the party line 100%. So if the group isn't to your liking, look for the rebels and the loose cannons, and encourage them. A lot of people will appear to follow the group stereotype, but they often harbour doubts which can be explored and nurtured.

I too dont involve myself being around people who are intolerent of me. I dont think their intolerence has anything to do with their diagnosis, or non-diagnosis for that matter. It seems that anyone can be intolerent. I have discovered though that there are more people who are tolerent than intolerent so I choose to be around people who are tolerent towards me.