I Am Autism - The War On Autism

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I don't call Autistics any names, then again, I don't associate with people who have afflictions. Having AS, I stick with NT's, that way my self esteem remains higher.

Many people with disabilities share the same viewpoint as Craig28 in that manor. Even those in care or mental health settings will attempt to associate themselves with the group they percieve are superior (usually the support staff) and disassociate themselves with their peers.

The fault does not lay with those individuals, it squarely rests on society which creates such stigma in people with disabilities. I have known a person with a physical disability in a wheelchair who managed to get a job working on a factory line. Each shift they would rather piss n crap themselves then ask to goto toilet as they did not wish to be percieved as workshy or lazy or sponger by their employer such was their anxiety to be accepted by mainstream society.

Its a harsh world if you wish to be a true individual and reject conformity

Alright Molecular_Biologist while your views have credible logical frameworks there would be no way the scientific community and even the general public would adopt your approach in public relations. Try and think about ways that can respect both sides and not allow your frustrations to manifest so harshly. This can be difficult less it is for constructive reasons. 1+1 = 2 in public relations is not the same as 1+1 = 2 in scientific discourse amongst science majors with no personal bias.

Wallourdes someone claiming to have A.S told me the aspie perspective was against the medicalization of autism and A.S. He told me I was ignorant and so on. This sort of aspie politics without the adoption of mainstream scientific acceptance just entices me to conclude it is a political groups perspective. Should it be rationalized both aspie social clique politics and insults should be left out of the discourse. My understanding just from a PR stance is the nature of pathology tends to conceptualize concepts as diseases by default. Therefore it is a matter of self-esteem and not mainstream opinion per say that is connotative of insult.

Awareness can be split off from disorder awarenesses and with concern to inclusion awareness and developmental disabilities in general I follow the law by the letter. Dignity prevails and difference is just difference. To say autism is not a disability derives attention to special interest that do not wish to help people with substantial disabilities. So the ego complex while not obviously causing problems to preserve the self-esteem can do damage to other kinds of awareness that seek to improve quality of life.

This is my assessment and by it's nature fractions off into mainstream politics.

Emotions are facts as well. I believe dignity is the law is what I'm saying least in California under the Lanterman Act. Also with regards to autism whether or not it is a disease ultimately does not dictate how dignity is standardized. There might be unwritten rules of how public discourse should be but ultimately it might end up being a cultural matter on how society perceives "disabilities" and the subsequent classifications.

This issue is mainstream political in indirect manifestations. If this comes down to reducing and or removing accommodations for employment or treatments in root it is no longer a scientific issue but a purely socio-political and mainstream cultural issue.

Just a bit of warning.