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TikvaBall

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Hi everyone. I discovered about autism in 2011 after I had a bunch of deaths in my family, and I became so obsessed with my special interest that the ex wanted a divorce and my family was concerned. I started trying to get the official assessment back then, but it took me until liTerally just 2024 !get the official diagnosis due !our healthcare system in the US. I'm also blind and have Tourette's, so I have a unique perspective.
 
Welcome. Nice to see blind representation here. Can you share more of your experiences of being blind?
 
I'll be happy to share my experiences of being blind. I went to a school for the blind, and I was mostly friends with other autistic people or else people who were otherwise neurodiverse or had another disability. The neurotypical blind people were horrible. There is a lot of toxicity in the blind community.
 
We're taught that we need to be super ultra normal. They instill a sense that we have to prove ourselves in order to be taken seriously. They teach us that we have to be not just as good as our sighted peers, but better than them, if we want to have a job or any kind of successful life. It's not great for the mental health.
 
TikvaBall said:
We're taught that we need to be super ultra normal. They instill a sense that we have to prove ourselves in order to be taken seriously. They teach us that we have to be not just as good as our sighted peers, but better than them, if we want to have a job or any kind of successful life. It's not great for the mental health.
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Especially when you throw autism into the mix.

Many of us have had to mask to get along in the NT world and this causes us stress and burnouts.

It sounds like your instruction of how to make it in the sighted world is similar.

So sorry. That sounds like twice the stress.
 
Welcome to the forum. You certainly have come thru many vhallenges. Special interests can really take over my life,
 
Sorry, I haven't figured out how to quote posts yet. I can mask in some ways, but I can't mask stimming to save my life. I'm nervous about working after I get out of school because of that.
 
Hi and Welcome @TikvaBall

I have been learning about disability through a course recently, and one distinction that has been made there is between impairment and disability. An impairment is what affects the individual, like autism, or blindness. But the disablement comes when we interact with a society that does not or cannot accept the wide range of how people are, and expects all folks to fit the mold of normativity that they have defined.
 
Hello and welcome @TikvaBall. Hope you enjoy the forum. A unique perspective is a very valuable thing.

Please do let us know if you need any help figuring things out.
 
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Sorry, I haven't figured out how to quote posts yet. I can mask in some ways, but I can't mask stimming to save my life. I'm nervous about working after I get out of school because of that.
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Click “quote” on the message you want to quote.
Scroll down to a blank message box where you want to write your reply. Click “insert quote”
Then look for the “Message added to Multiquote” at the top of your screen. Click on “quote message” button.

At this point the quoted message should appear in your reply box and you can proceed from there.
 
You can also paint a section from a text with mouse and left button. Popup appears allowing you to quote only that part. Then "insert quotes"...
 
Well I use VoiceOver with a braille display, so I'm not sure that's going to work. I can't use all that fancy formatting stuff, I have to just get a basic text field. Is there a way to set that as a default?
 
Oops. Sorry... I missed that part from your introduction. I paid only attention to Tourette's, which seems to be common co-morbid of autism. Movie actor Dan Aykroyd has that too :)

Oh... I keep forgetting basic pleasantries: Welcome to the forums!
 
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