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If all your life you've felt weird and broken and different, wouldn't it be so wonderful to be told that you're actually just like a whole lot of other people?

If all your life you've felt weird and broken and different, wouldn't it be so wonderful to be told that you're actually just like a whole lot of other people? Better yet, there's a vast body of research on techniques you can employ to make your life easier. That sounds pretty compelling to me.

hcarvalhoalves 11y ago
"If all your life you've felt weird and broken and different ..." Surprise: everybody feels this way.
- mikeash 11y ago
  And in my opinion, one of the key moments of growth is when you finally realize that it's not just you.
- nickpsecurity 11y ago
  Except autistic people are different in specific, objective ways as a whole from most of society that results in confusion and ostracism. Further, society usually tries to convince them that this isn't the case: they're merely normal people that are insensitive, weak, anti-social assholes. Or something like that. Validation that one's brain really is wired differently than most with specific strengths and weaknesses is useful information. Lets that person chart a more effective path forward accepting their weaknesses rather than believing a lack of effort or whatever. The ability to send a link to people in the majority category explaining it to them and from qualified people is even more valuable. Sometimes, when people around understand, they change their reactions and how they associate with that person to work with the strengths and around the weaknesses. All in all, getting a diagnosis like this must have been a relief for her which validated the coping choices she made plus led she and her husband on a discovery process that will continue improving their lives. Most people don't need it. People whose brains are hardwired in ways that puts them at the mercy of tyrannical majority do.

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If all your life you've felt weird and broken and different, wouldn't it be so wonderful to be told that you're actually just like a whole lot of other people?

by davidbanham 11y ago

hcarvalhoalves 11y ago
"If all your life you've felt weird and broken and different ..." Surprise: everybody feels this way.
- mikeash 11y ago
  And in my opinion, one of the key moments of growth is when you finally realize that it's not just you.
- nickpsecurity 11y ago
  Except autistic people are different in specific, objective ways as a whole from most of society that results in confusion and ostracism. Further, society usually tries to convince them that this isn't the case: they're merely normal people that are insensitive, weak, anti-social assholes. Or something like that. Validation that one's brain really is wired differently than most with specific strengths and weaknesses is useful information. Lets that person chart a more effective path forward accepting their weaknesses rather than believing a lack of effort or whatever. The ability to send a link to people in the majority category explaining it to them and from qualified people is even more valuable. Sometimes, when people around understand, they change their reactions and how they associate with that person to work with the strengths and around the weaknesses. All in all, getting a diagnosis like this must have been a relief for her which validated the coping choices she made plus led she and her husband on a discovery process that will continue improving their lives. Most people don't need it. People whose brains are hardwired in ways that puts them at the mercy of tyrannical majority do.