Neurotypicals are Humans too

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In regard to how I feel about NTs, when I first found out I was autistic, I went down the rabbithole of resenting them. I couldn't stay there for very long because I've been blessed to know some lovely ones. My Meemaw (another name for Grandma) was the most loving, sweet, empathic person I've ever known, and she was NT. This leads me to think that people are people, no matter what their neurotype is.

You can have a great life with or without autism and you can have the opposite and feel sorry for all your problems and disadvantages. It's more to a person than a diagnosis like autism. You can't blame everything on autism if you think that you are disabled.

I think we are all playing the game of life on different difficulty levels, and those on the spectrum are on average playing on a harder difficulty level than NTs.

Whether that’s a blessing, a curse or a neutral thing is down to individual philosophy and temperament I think. It’s a question that can be applied to all types of human struggles, not just autism.

"Neurotypicals are Humans too"~
I'm a misanthrope & really hope all human including myself die off before we develop space travel enough where we can go & f#ck-up other planets the way we did earth.

"God blessed the world with autism"~
I'm an agnostic Secular Humanist. Using god as an argument in statements is patronizing to me.


Now as for as how I feel about being autistic, autism can affect different people in different ways & I do not think it gave me any special strengths, skills, or talents. However I have various other disabilities & issues some of which are unrelated to autism. If my autism would have given me something really cool & useful other problems prevented that from happening. I do think if I was more of an NT I would have been better able to compensate for some of my disabilities & issues. That said it's very difficult for me to know exactly what's autism & what's not as well as what my life would be like if I wasn't autistic. Everyone has to play the cards we were dealt in life as best we can. Some people are more unlucky or mistreated more than others are. it's very difficult for anybody to understand what a seemingly bad situation is like if they never personally experienced it. Even psychs who have advanced degrees to treat various mental issues do not fully grasp what their patients are dealing with unless the psych has struggled with those exact same issues in their past.

last time I checked, I'm a member of Homo sapien sapiens

While I could care less about one's autism not blessing to someone, I just don't buy the being a loser in life and the lesser than human bit.

Pain and suffering?
Most humans have that. It's just a matter of what they're blaming that on.

Everyone has their own priorities as to how they came about such conclusion.
Unfortunately, most priorities are largely influenced by the norm itself.

I'm not going to elaborate how humans are evolved and largely conditioned to a point that social death scares them more than physical death.
Sympathy? That's another matter.



I know how to make do with my 'so-called deficits'.
Usually, my language based issues.

No, I won't be talking about cognitive trade offs; but I happened to be good enough to use said language issues to get away with a lot of things.

All I need is the lack of emotional lability, really. Gradually getting that, in actuality.

Oh, and I found that most of the emotional lability isn't a part of my autism.
It's this stupid unprocessed grief that I finally found and put a stop to it.

Literally went from this spoiled shite that I kept fighting to someone more stable and more like myself overnight.
... Still pissed about it though. Because it took over 20 years.

But my language processing issues is definately a part of my autism.
It's literally in my neurology. And it has it's wide range of downsides.

How the heck did I make do with something supposedly so frustrating to have?

The offset is complicated.
It consists of learning psychology deeper than just knowing your culture and without masking.

One of the prospects of memory issues is to kill certain habits off.

If the brain is like a power grid... And autistics are generally monotropic...
All I need is better transitioning. I already gained an ability to zoom in and zoom out, I just have to master that.

But transitioning requires more energy.
Then get I healthier.
See how complicated I have to go through to offset issues by solving issues that are solvable and make do with any of them?



Also no.
I'm aware not everyone knows how to make do. Not even NTs.

Most autistics way of 'making do' is brute forcing their pros to offset their cons.
Or something else entirely like exploiting it's features not unlike with alexithymia and staying cool in high stress situations.

I don't have that.
I even lost some good out of it because of things unrelated to autism.

But as far as I'm concerned, I don't blame my autism for most of my problems in life.

Many people in my life did though -- and I'm going to exploit the hell out of their assumption over that.

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It's not hard to understand why we might feel uneasy about allistic people. We've been bullied and bullies are more likely to be allistic. Maybe out allistic family members might have hurt us, but there time that we must forgive people.