I have Asperger’s Syndrome, social anxiety disorder, OCD and depression.
I’m 30 years old, female and am happily married to a wonderful autistic man.
I like drawing pixel art. I started drawing in Aug 2011 and have been addicted to it since then, so if you see a pixel picture in this blog, then it was probably drawn by me.
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I have a really hard time talking to other autistic people about struggles with autism because they often take any laments about being unable to do something as ‘internalized ableism’. The fuck is that? Acknowledging the difficullties that come with autism is being self-hating? Is your life really that easy?
Related to this (although maybe you’re talking about the same thing), I don’t understand why everyone seems to think that hating autism = hating the autistic person. It is possible to hate the symptoms of autism, and all of the difficulties that it causes you in your life, but to not hate yourself. There’s more to a person than just their autism, even if it does influence a lot of their life. People do have personalities as well as having autism.
I really don’t appreciate being regarded as “fascinating”. Or “mysterious”. Or “wondrous”. All of those words imply that I’m on a different plane of existence from you. And the reality is, I’m not. I am human. I eat, sleep, and walk. I love others, and I am loved. I just process things differently. I don’t see anything “fascinating” about this development, do you?
I’m not sure why these words, which I can’t see as anything other than being compliments, are causing so much anger. I’ve been called fascinating and enigmatic before and I thought it was a very nice thing to be called. It was certainly better than being called a weird freak.
Whether someone seems fascinating, mysterious or wondrous or not depends on how different they are from yourself, and if you see those different qualities in a positive light. So when a non autistic person says those things, they’re simply saying “you’re different to me, and I don’t always entirely understand those differences, but I think they’re amazing differences that I like”.
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I don’t think autism should be considered as a developmental disability. Yet most people think that autistic people are delayed throughout their lives. I wouldn’t say that people with autism are considered developmentally disabled. The reason I think this is because people with autism are in fact…
It isn’t called a developmental disability because autistic people are non-intelligent. It’s called a developmental disability because autism affects your ability to reach normal developmental milestones at the correct times.
My husband is autistic and he was definitely developmentally delayed. He was a very late speaker (took him until his teens), had a lot of problems with toilet training and bladder control (again, took him until his teens) etc. Speaking and toilet training are developmental milestones that most people reach at a very young age. My husband is however extremely intelligent.
I have asperger syndrome, and although I was actually quite advanced at hitting certain developmental milestones (like talking, toilet training etc), I was delayed in hitting social and emotional developmental milestones. In fact, I don’t think I was just delayed, I think I stopped developing in some areas completely. As an example, I never really developed beyond parallel play and I think I still possess the emotional abilities of a young child. I also feel like a child inside, even though I’m in an adult body. I feel like I never even became a teenager, emotionally or socially, and do not relate at all to anything people refer to when they talk about the life of a teenager. I do however have the intellectual maturity of an adult.
As far as I was aware, people do think of autism as being something like down syndrome and cerebral palsy. People are certainly trying to cure autism in the same way that they ‘cure’ down syndrome (eugenics).
I’m sure that there are people with down syndrome etc who do want to be cured, just as there are people with autism who do want to be cured.
I might have reblogged this before, but I don’t care!
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