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"I'd normalize if I could" and "People with Type 1 Autism should have more social room" can be held at the same time. This isn't always the case, but much of t
by mrangle 2y ago
"I'd normalize if I could" and "People with Type 1 Autism should have more social room" can be held at the same time.
This isn't always the case, but much of the time the trauma is due to an ill fit rather than being inevitable.
An example of inevitability might be the trauma experienced due to unexpected deaths of loved ones. An "ill fit" needs no elaboration. The few people with autism who manage to succeed and thereby improve their environment seem to suffer less frequent trauma, if any unless it is of the inevitable type. And then, for example, would people with autism have such an unusually difficult time with loss if their support network wasn't so tenuous? Maybe, or maybe to some lesser degree.
I think that a reasonable starting point would be the question: if someone with type 1 autism could have everything that they wanted including socially, would they still want to change their nature? I think that responses would be mixed.
For example, take the young autistic woman who just underwent assisted suicide in the Netherlands. Does it seem more likely that her nature was fatally flawed or that her society didn't think to get off of its ass, sing to her in unison, and then make room?