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Seriously dismissing how crippling autism is for a lot of people, and how wildy different are the effects. My brother is one of them, and despite is "better" t
by mamcx 12y ago
Seriously dismissing how crippling autism is for a lot of people, and how wildy different are the effects.
My brother is one of them, and despite is "better" than most certainly can't have a job. In fact, is too smart to be in the repetive kind-of-jobs and too crippled to havce a chance elsewhere.
A very small subset of autistic people have won the "lottery", so can complain about stuff and have a more-or-less independent live.
To think: Is like have a(several?) thin sword passing in to your brain, and you don't know what exactly it damage. That is autism.
- a7291 12y agoI won that lottery and even from my own experience the dismissal of the disability aspect bothers me. I'm happy with who I am and with my life, but having significant difficulty with everyday things isn't just a personality quirk to be celebrated.
- mpyne 12y agoI don't think that's quite the right analogy. The way I explain it to people regarding my son is that you have the brain, the brain's modules are all there, but all the interconnecting stuff that helps the different parts of the brain work together, self-regulate, etc., are all much weaker than in a typical brain. Thus you get people who are very impulsive, or are great problem solvers but have trouble with language (which requires the cooperation of many different parts of the brain), or much prefer visual inputs, etc. Even that is only an approximation of what must be going on, but certainly most of the gear works; it just doesn't work together concurrently as it should.