I was "Cured", by Wrong Planet.
For sixty years I though other people were different, and they had my sympathy. Education made me aware that I am the different one, down to my slip on shoes.
No one could tell me how they saw me as different, and I do not spy on them to the point where I could find out how they are different.
While there is still a lot I do not understand, I now can see their Bee Dance, their face and eye signaling, I still do not know the meaning, but now think they are trying.
While it explains so much of my life, I still cannot Bee Dance, but at least I know.
Some things go under the Big A, others under the Bees.
Perhaps if I was younger when I learned all this I could have taken over the world or something, but being me, I would not want it.
How I think will never change, but I can learn to relate to others better.
As my Grandmother said, "You may "have" to kill someone, but you never "have" to be rude."
So through Wrong Planet I am learning I have been unintentionally rude. Not that it would change anything with the people who took offense, and I have found that insulting them also works.
I lack Species Pride, Team Spirit, and do not have a common culture of watching sports on television.
We may never get along, but at least I know why.
I hear the same from the Broader Autism Phenotype, Geeks, we relate, but they also lack understanding of hairless ground ape social behavior. General Autistic behavior is labeled Geek, Nerd, by the majority,
So I see a personal Cure, becoming aware.
I see a social Cure, two part, us not talking tech, them trying to not talk sports and tv, but we remind them of being in school, without the fun social stuff.
As for a phyical cure, it would be easier to make them autistic than us NT.
By the latest count autism is in twenty-two genes, and a different set for girls. There is no marker for LFA, AS, HFA, BAP, and the same genes are found in NTs. The question of why some turn on or off is beyond science. Genocide might as well be done at random.
It is like those who believed in abortion, they selected their line out of the world, now there are less followers. Wanting abortion was genetic.
The connection of autism and technology is the same, since we were released from the mental hospitals in 1974, technology has bloomed, and calls for even geekier people to keep up with the doubling of knowledge that happens ever quicker. A good deal of the money made in IT was by our group.
An Internet based Information Age is all ours. We are the producers and consumers of tech.
The NT world of social groups in manufacturing, office work, and government, have not been doing well. One in five is unemployed, and their jobs gone forever. Of the employed, more than half work for governement of some kind, and tax income is down at least 10%, with more demand to spend on unemployment and food stamps.
Dow 10,000 in 1999, and now again, with the dollar buying half as much gas and food. The national debt has reached unsupportable levels, and taxes will have to go up. All of the special government retirement and health care, all of the pensions of unions, were invested in the market, and are gone. All of the people who bought bigger and bigger houses for the tax deduction, still own them.
The Social Model is not working like it used to.
Autism Speaks is a very social model, and without them to spotlight our 1% of the population we would have never learned many things. While they know we are different, when they try to define it, they have to define how mindless social behavior works. All of the spouse groups have the same problem, we are logical, and they have a right to demand that we become as irrational and emotional as they are.
Most of their models of ideal behavior come from television and movies, ours come from a life of overcoming life's problems, staying focused, and getting the job done, someday. They wanted everything now on credit, we want to save money. They want a lifestyle, we want a life.
Everytime it comes up on Wrong Planet, The Myers Briggs test, we are almost all INTJ, ENTJ, INTP, ENTP, which adds up to as many people who are now called autistic. When the test came out, we were called very useful and focused people. During WWII we were in high demand.
The democratic view of majority rule cannot be applied to mental types, we need them all, and the idea that everyone is equal, can only be seen as equal to the majority. We know that half the population has a IQ of less than a hundred.
Some very bad choices have been made, socially, in economics to go with that, and in politics, which has led us into wars we cannot quit because of the jobs that would be lost. That is no reason to fight a war. While the largest defaults in real estate are commercial, the chamber of commerce leaders, and in jumbo mortgages, homes over $750,000, they tried to blame it on the minorities that they sold loans to.
The recent rise of Psychology, and drug companies, was blaming it on mental minorities. They seek to turn 49% into customers.
So I love to hear them define their positions, and I believe in Freedom of Speech. Obama tells the banks they will have to pay for the mess they made, they say screw you, you will be gone, we will buy the next guy. Clinton tells the Chinese that they cannot restrict the internet, and they say screw you, go home and watch porn. No, we are not buying any more bonds, and it is time to make your dollars worth what you promissed. You cannot run your own country, how dare you tell us how to run ours, which is the second largest economy and fastest growing. We hold two trillion of your debt, you pay us $400 Billion a year, or else.
All the Kennedy's who died for your sins cannot hold a Senate seat after fifty years, in a Democratic State. Barney Frank knows he is next.
I want to hear them all define why everyone is broke and in debt, they can speak at the People's Tribunal. Heads are going to roll, and not just in government.
23 Jan 2010, 1:45 am
