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I was diagnosed with autism when I was four years old. Now I am in my mid-teens and I have been looking at how the internet sees autism. I came across the autistic rights movement when I was 15. I like the idea of how the members want people to treat them right and have autism recognised as not being a disorder, but I feel I don't fit in with the autistic culture. I just think I don't meet the criteria for it because:
1. I rarely, if ever, stim. As a kid, I used to stim quite a bit (mostly spinning round objects), but I don't do it so much now that I'm a teenager. I don't even own a single stim toy. (I am pro-stim btw)
2. I have learned to cope with my sensory issues and anxiety very well over the years. They were very bad when I was a kid, but now they are only mild and under control.
3. I'm not that offended by the concept of curing autism (it does bug me a bit), but I do think we should be accepting it more as a difference.
4. Autistic culture supporters seem to only ever talk about autism. I prefer varied conversations and if I were an autistic culture supporter, I would talk about so much more than autism (e.g. what I am doing in my life etc).
5. Spelling autism with a capital A REALLY bugs me because it's not a person's name or a brand, unlike Asperger syndrome, which was named after Hans Asperger. I get that it's because people identify with the culture, much like how deaf people use "Deaf" if they identify with their culture.
6. I sometimes worry about what people will think if they find out I'm autistic.
Just so you know, I am anti-Autism Speaks. I don't feel it's right to research into a cure for autism, especially if you only cater towards families with autistic kids and not autistic people as a whole. I just want to know if it's OK to be autistic and not embrace the culture, if there are any like-minded people here, please feel free to reply. Thanks
1. I rarely, if ever, stim. As a kid, I used to stim quite a bit (mostly spinning round objects), but I don't do it so much now that I'm a teenager. I don't even own a single stim toy. (I am pro-stim btw)
2. I have learned to cope with my sensory issues and anxiety very well over the years. They were very bad when I was a kid, but now they are only mild and under control.
3. I'm not that offended by the concept of curing autism (it does bug me a bit), but I do think we should be accepting it more as a difference.
4. Autistic culture supporters seem to only ever talk about autism. I prefer varied conversations and if I were an autistic culture supporter, I would talk about so much more than autism (e.g. what I am doing in my life etc).
5. Spelling autism with a capital A REALLY bugs me because it's not a person's name or a brand, unlike Asperger syndrome, which was named after Hans Asperger. I get that it's because people identify with the culture, much like how deaf people use "Deaf" if they identify with their culture.
6. I sometimes worry about what people will think if they find out I'm autistic.
Just so you know, I am anti-Autism Speaks. I don't feel it's right to research into a cure for autism, especially if you only cater towards families with autistic kids and not autistic people as a whole. I just want to know if it's OK to be autistic and not embrace the culture, if there are any like-minded people here, please feel free to reply. Thanks
Yep, you can do that.
As others have said, the penultimate statement of things like diversity and tolerance is saying, "We can agree to disagree, and still like each other at the end of the day. We can even talk about it, and possibly learn from each other in a mutual exchange between imperfect but equally valid beings."
"Autistic culture" right now has a lot of extremism and a lot of bitterness. Those things are, OK, certainly understandable and somewhat justified by the experiences of older autistics (hint: I have a daughter a year younger than you, and I didn't start remarkably young, and I'm a pup compared to some vocal activists).
If you, as a young female, don't feel those bitternesses, traumas, and antagonistic resentments, that's a good sign. It means either you got lucky, or things are getting better.
04 Apr 2016, 12:13 am
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lembowman wrote:
I was diagnosed with autism when I was four years old. Now I am in my mid-teens and I have been looking at how the internet sees autism. I came across the autistic rights movement when I was 15. I like the idea of how the members want people to treat them right and have autism recognised as not being a disorder, but I feel I don't fit in with the autistic culture. I just think I don't meet the criteria for it because:
1. I rarely, if ever, stim. As a kid, I used to stim quite a bit (mostly spinning round objects), but I don't do it so much now that I'm a teenager. I don't even own a single stim toy. (I am pro-stim btw)
2. I have learned to cope with my sensory issues and anxiety very well over the years. They were very bad when I was a kid, but now they are only mild and under control.
3. I'm not that offended by the concept of curing autism (it does bug me a bit), but I do think we should be accepting it more as a difference.
4. Autistic culture supporters seem to only ever talk about autism. I prefer varied conversations and if I were an autistic culture supporter, I would talk about so much more than autism (e.g. what I am doing in my life etc).
5. Spelling autism with a capital A REALLY bugs me because it's not a person's name or a brand, unlike Asperger syndrome, which was named after Hans Asperger. I get that it's because people identify with the culture, much like how deaf people use "Deaf" if they identify with their culture.
6. I sometimes worry about what people will think if they find out I'm autistic.
Just so you know, I am anti-Autism Speaks. I don't feel it's right to research into a cure for autism, especially if you only cater towards families with autistic kids and not autistic people as a whole. I just want to know if it's OK to be autistic and not embrace the culture, if there are any like-minded people here, please feel free to reply. Thanks
1. I rarely, if ever, stim. As a kid, I used to stim quite a bit (mostly spinning round objects), but I don't do it so much now that I'm a teenager. I don't even own a single stim toy. (I am pro-stim btw)
2. I have learned to cope with my sensory issues and anxiety very well over the years. They were very bad when I was a kid, but now they are only mild and under control.
3. I'm not that offended by the concept of curing autism (it does bug me a bit), but I do think we should be accepting it more as a difference.
4. Autistic culture supporters seem to only ever talk about autism. I prefer varied conversations and if I were an autistic culture supporter, I would talk about so much more than autism (e.g. what I am doing in my life etc).
5. Spelling autism with a capital A REALLY bugs me because it's not a person's name or a brand, unlike Asperger syndrome, which was named after Hans Asperger. I get that it's because people identify with the culture, much like how deaf people use "Deaf" if they identify with their culture.
6. I sometimes worry about what people will think if they find out I'm autistic.
Just so you know, I am anti-Autism Speaks. I don't feel it's right to research into a cure for autism, especially if you only cater towards families with autistic kids and not autistic people as a whole. I just want to know if it's OK to be autistic and not embrace the culture, if there are any like-minded people here, please feel free to reply. Thanks
Yep, you can do that.
As others have said, the penultimate statement of things like diversity and tolerance is saying, "We can agree to disagree, and still like each other at the end of the day. We can even talk about it, and possibly learn from each other in a mutual exchange between imperfect but equally valid beings."
"Autistic culture" right now has a lot of extremism and a lot of bitterness. Those things are, OK, certainly understandable and somewhat justified by the experiences of older autistics (hint: I have a daughter a year younger than you, and I didn't start remarkably young, and I'm a pup compared to some vocal activists).
If you, as a young female, don't feel those bitternesses, traumas, and antagonistic resentments, that's a good sign. It means either you got lucky, or things are getting better.
There is no justification for the bitterness and hate of the autistic "rights" movement and the neurodiversity movement, both of which are really the same thing when you get down to it. The autistic "rights"/neurodiversity movement claims to want more autistic voices out there, yet it opposes the very services [ABA] that are needed to help autistic people talk and express themselves. It is a movement of people who have a self-entitled victim mentality. Those evil people [yes, they're evil in my book] want to keep autistic people unable to talk, unable to make basic eye contact [among other things] and unable to communicate, keep them in diapers, and promote that as an "alternative" lifestyle. And then they want to blame it all on neurotypical people. Please, those people don't represent me. I'm glad to have my own voice. Look, I don't deny that there is room for improvement on the part of society. But this self-entitled victim mentality let's stick it to neurotypical people has to stop. One more thing. They constantly promote autism as a valid alternative lifestyle and yet, since they see the life of autistic people as hopeless, would then say that it's ok to have autistic babies aborted [that is cut up or poisoned in their mothers' wombs] because life is just so miserable for autistic people. But who makes life miserable for autistic people? These self-entitled whiny brats from the autistic "rights"/neurotypical movement. That's who. And the reason why they would support abortion and PP selling their baby parts is because it's a left-wing cause. Let's just say it as it is and stop sugar coding it. It's really about Cultural Marxism at heart, where autistic people are the perfect "victim" group and neurotypicals are the bourgeoius. But like I said, I refuse to see myself as a victim. I see myself as a victor.
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