This is great! My mother and I are fairly into autism activism, as we did ABA therapy for a little girl for about three years and became close to her family.
i recall reading a while back, but i'd forgotten about it. thank you! it's interesting now, the way the internet is changing communication for autistics!
i have seen this, and been captivated by it. i touch things like this very often because of my obsessive/compulsive tendencies.
i had hoped that the point i was getting across is that autistic people are just people with another way of being; some of them have special gifts and some don't. kim peek and daniel tammet are unique in their autism because of their savant syndrome.
maybe i should have split the post into one about neurodiversity and one about savants...
sorry!! i didn't mean to imply you were focusing on the 'special gifts', my apologies, i suppose this is a comment i've heard say a lot with regards to autism; that it is often assumed that people with autism also have the 'special abilitities' while in actual fact only few do. the film rainmen i suppose helped create that myth.
the video i posted in response, i feel, supports the message in your post, she is very clearly trying to explain that she feels she is merely someone who communicates differently rather than someone who has a disorder.
i think, actually, that autism is a special gift in its own right. the ability to perceive the world in such exquisite (or very basic, or in-the-middle) ways.
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it's interesting now, the way the internet is changing communication for autistics!
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(you look so pretty in your icon!)
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a lot of the autistic rights things aren't widely-known yet!
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autistic people don't necessarily, however, have special gifts all the time.
maybe you want to include this video which really moved me:
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i touch things like this very often because of my obsessive/compulsive tendencies.
i had hoped that the point i was getting across is that autistic people are just people with another way of being; some of them have special gifts and some don't. kim peek and daniel tammet are unique in their autism because of their savant syndrome.
maybe i should have split the post into one about neurodiversity and one about savants...
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the video i posted in response, i feel, supports the message in your post, she is very clearly trying to explain that she feels she is merely someone who communicates differently rather than someone who has a disorder.
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the ability to perceive the world in such exquisite (or very basic, or in-the-middle) ways.
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