DandelionFireworks wrote:
We are segregated. For years, basically my only interaction with the NT world was through church on Sunday. One day a week, and only part of that day. Aside from that, I left the house to see a shrink, go to a social skills group and see an occupational therapist. I also had some friends online for a few months of that time (which lasted from fall of '04 to spring of '08, or three and a half years), briefly attended a couple of youth organizations (not simultaneously) which met about once every two weeks and spent about half a year (concurrently with the internet friendships) in contact with a sociopath who taught me some Spanish. On average, besides the few-month-long aberration with the sociopath and the internet, I spent about eight hours per week outside my house, of which only five were not segregated. This is comparable to what an NT would experience in a day.
Others have been relegated to special ed and mental hospitals, and though I have no firsthand experience, I would guess that their experiences are no more integrated than mine.
I suspect that one of my teachers in fifth grade may have purposely been cruel to me because of my Asperger's.
The law doesn't say we can't vote or appear in public or anything like that, but all the same, we're denied rights.
This sounds voluntary to me, also name the rights denied, who says that you cannot go out and make friends, reduced social skills are one thing but locking yourself in your house for days on end just sounds dangerous (vitamin D deficency etc.) sure alone time is important, but it should go between things (events) and not years.
Secondly, The purpose of the seperate diagnoses are that each different form of autism is just that different, the links between them are already acknowledged (hence the idea of an autism spectrum) and already called ASDs.
29 May 2010, 8:14 am
