Yes, I have autism.

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07 Apr 2017, 8:08 pm

No, it's not a part of me, any more than asthma is a part of people with asthma or cancer is a part of people with cancer.

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07 Apr 2017, 8:57 pm

I'm glad you don't let your autism determine your life.

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07 Apr 2017, 9:02 pm

NewTime wrote:

No, it's not a part of me, any more than asthma is a part of people with asthma or cancer is a part of people with cancer.

I get the sentiment...but I disagree. Autism is much more ingrained in neurology than cancer or asthma. Like cancer and asthma doesn't effect how your thinking and brain works the way autism does. Of course you don't have to be defined solely by autism but at least in my opinion it is more ingrained than asthma or cancer.

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08 Apr 2017, 1:42 am

Autism is not a part of me that I would want to keep.
It does not make me who I am inside.
Instead it is like a prison keeping me from being on the outside who I am on the inside.
It's like a ball and chain I have to drag around with me everywhere.
It inhibits, encumbers, debilitates, stifles, oppresses.

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08 Apr 2017, 5:09 am

NewTime wrote:

No, it's not a part of me, any more than asthma is a part of people with asthma or cancer is a part of people with cancer.

Autism and cancer are often compared to each other either to say how different they are or how similar they are. As a cancer survivor and a autistic I have a somewhat unique perspective on this topic.

When I was first diagnosed with autism the question of what part of me is the autism, what is my personality, and what part of my personality is fake from not knowing I was autistic caused me a whole bunch of angst. I have come to the conclusion that my personality and my autism are so fused togeather as to be indistinguishable.

My hopefully former cancer is a part of me. It greatly altered my life and it's lasting effects or some of them be it speech and eating impediments and worry over reoccurrence will last the remainder of my life. Going through something like that is going to alter they way most people think. Unlike the autism part of me is what the cancer changed is pretty obvoius. I was born autistic, I possibly have a genetic predisposition for cancer. Cancer can directly kill me, Autism can not. At most stress related to bieng autistic might be an indirect factor.

I would never describe myself as a formally canserous person. I describe myself as an autistic person who had (hopefully) cancer.

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08 Apr 2017, 5:19 am

I am autistic.

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09 Apr 2017, 1:21 am

I'm autistic and proud.

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09 Apr 2017, 2:37 am

To me its really insignificant how you word it.

I have autism, i am autistic, who cares? Doesnt change the way it effects my life.

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09 Apr 2017, 2:41 am

One is a condition and the other is an identity.

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09 Apr 2017, 2:48 am

Keigan wrote:

One is a condiction and the other is an identity.

Why think about it that hard? Like, it still means the same general thing. Whether you say "i am autistic" or "i have autism" they both mean the general same thing, its autism. Its a disability. It doesnt change anything on how you word it.

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09 Apr 2017, 2:56 am

ZombieBrideXD wrote:

Keigan wrote:

One is a condiction and the other is an identity.

Why think about it that hard?

Because catagorization and detail orientation are autistic traits?

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09 Apr 2017, 3:36 am

I'm a human first before anything else. That includes being autistic, being female, and the nationality and the upbringing I grew up with.
Autism defines my neurology, along with it's blessings and curses and that's it. Not as I'm as whole.

As a human, WE can grow and change. Autism just makes it different or alters it. Then the rest is at mercy of your own predisposition, and environment -- along with the society and the people around you. And if it's possible, your own choices.

So there. :lol:

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09 Apr 2017, 3:43 am

Sweetleaf wrote:

NewTime wrote:

No, it's not a part of me, any more than asthma is a part of people with asthma or cancer is a part of people with cancer.

I get the sentiment...but I disagree. Autism is much more ingrained in neurology than cancer or asthma. Like cancer and asthma doesn't effect how your thinking and brain works the way autism does.

It does if you have brain cancer.

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09 Apr 2017, 5:16 am

ZombieBrideXD wrote:

Keigan wrote:

One is a condiction and the other is an identity.

Oh is that what this thread is about? I have autism, I am autistic, same thing to me.

Now if I said, I am autism, that would sound like an identity.

To me saying I am autistic is like saying I am happy or I am bored or I am hungry etc.

When my mom asks me "are you hungry?" I don't reply "No I am Ezra".

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09 Apr 2017, 1:19 pm

It's "I'm autistic", not "I have autism". And autism is not a disease like asthma or cancer.

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10 Apr 2017, 12:41 am

lostonearth35 wrote:

It's "I'm autistic", not "I have autism". And autism is not a disease like asthma or cancer.

I'm hungry. I have hunger. The first one is obviously correct.

I'm autistic.
I'm talented.
I'm smart.
I'm short.
I'm quite.
I'm curious.
I'm late.
I'm sure.
I'm sorry.

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