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I feel that everyone knows autism. Just type on your smartphone and you'll get a definition of autism. But people use this awareness of autism for their purposes, for better or for worse. I also feel that there are some things some people cannot adapt - this is also why I know many others don't quite like.
But there is one central theme that my group still needs, and it will involve everyone in our autism community: Ability for Acceptance.
Indeed... the biggest disagreements in the past between me and other colleagues in the autism support group I helped founded (which cannot be resolved for the time being, due to simmering issues from the conflict that takes lots of time and wisdom to heal) just involve the ability to recognize that somehow, we are limited.
Are we ready to accept that autistic people may not have a strength that society needs? Are we psychologically ready to be recognized for our abilities, but not our beings?
Not that I am pessimistic - sometimes I feel that even as a normalized person, we Aspies still feel weird. Might as well do be ourselves. We should do whatever we can - and just drop out of the race to conform to relentless competition to be someone else not us.
Anyway, without opportunities (which just has a random chance to come at anyone, more so in autistic people), our community may not produce another person that would better the world in the way Dr Temple Grandin and Daniel Tammet do.
I feel that everyone knows autism. Just type on your smartphone and you'll get a definition of autism. But people use this awareness of autism for their purposes, for better or for worse. I also feel that there are some things some people cannot adapt - this is also why I know many others don't quite like.
But there is one central theme that my group still needs, and it will involve everyone in our autism community: Ability for Acceptance.
Indeed... the biggest disagreements in the past between me and other colleagues in the autism support group I helped founded (which cannot be resolved for the time being, due to simmering issues from the conflict that takes lots of time and wisdom to heal) just involve the ability to recognize that somehow, we are limited.
Are we ready to accept that autistic people may not have a strength that society needs? Are we psychologically ready to be recognized for our abilities, but not our beings?
Not that I am pessimistic - sometimes I feel that even as a normalized person, we Aspies still feel weird. Might as well do be ourselves. We should do whatever we can - and just drop out of the race to conform to relentless competition to be someone else not us.
Anyway, without opportunities (which just has a random chance to come at anyone, more so in autistic people), our community may not produce another person that would better the world in the way Dr Temple Grandin and Daniel Tammet do.
