OnyxM
Well-Known Member
So I'm navigating a well known pictures and albums/pins platform trying to find posts regarding autism and autistic people and I'm suddenly swarmed by hundreds of posts, most of which are about either 1) autistic kids or 2) the PARENTS of autistic kids.
I get it..parents of autistic kids are brave and bad ass for having to 'go through' autism in their kids and they're so tough for defending them and they want to desperately share 'what it feels like to have these struggles' and blah blah blah..but you'd think that in our year you could find more posts about autistic people themselves and THEIR stories and struggles in ALL ages..I'm specifically referring to posts not scientific documents or articles, I can easily find those everywhere even here.
I'm just confused by this because it seems that even in this area of interest, neurotypicals somehow still have the 'most attention' by constantly making it about themselves..you know what it's like for them to be around autistics, deal with them or raise them, etc..
Not that they do it on purpose or anything, but it seems like even in the internet autism is still a supposed 'mystery'. I think the same occurs with ADHD too. You'll find a million of posts about ADHD people's PARENTS or about little kids with ADHD but barely a sufficient amount of content for adults with ADHD. It kinda pisses me off
Sorry for the rant, had to say it :l
I get it..parents of autistic kids are brave and bad ass for having to 'go through' autism in their kids and they're so tough for defending them and they want to desperately share 'what it feels like to have these struggles' and blah blah blah..but you'd think that in our year you could find more posts about autistic people themselves and THEIR stories and struggles in ALL ages..I'm specifically referring to posts not scientific documents or articles, I can easily find those everywhere even here.
I'm just confused by this because it seems that even in this area of interest, neurotypicals somehow still have the 'most attention' by constantly making it about themselves..you know what it's like for them to be around autistics, deal with them or raise them, etc..
Not that they do it on purpose or anything, but it seems like even in the internet autism is still a supposed 'mystery'. I think the same occurs with ADHD too. You'll find a million of posts about ADHD people's PARENTS or about little kids with ADHD but barely a sufficient amount of content for adults with ADHD. It kinda pisses me off
Sorry for the rant, had to say it :l