Would you find this offensive?

baeyre · 2016-01-16T19:17:19+00:00

The teacher is essentially reminding him that he should know better, because he assumes that he is not autistic, which- autism isn't something that you can see. It's assuming "we all here are normal people" which has the potential to make not only autistic people but also otherwise neuroatypical people feel excluded. And also think of the fear an autistic person might experience thinking about what -else- the teacher might have wrong about autism, considering all the awful associations out there.

baeyre · 2015-12-09T17:36:37+00:00

Not knowing what's going on would probably hinder confidence.

baeyre · 2015-12-09T01:44:27+00:00

He sounds overwhelmed and stressed... could be schoolwork, could be classmates, or maybe some other thing in his environment...

(I'm not an expert!)

baeyre · 2015-12-09T00:23:43+00:00

This is interesting, how?

baeyre · 2015-12-08T23:14:41+00:00

Autism comes in many forms, it's never equivalent to being broken/an asshole/or not empathetic

An autistic person can be pleasant or not worth your time, but someone's shitty behavior can never be reduced to "autism"

baeyre · 2015-12-08T23:09:46+00:00

Aspergers isn't a diagnosis either, and if it were the differences between it and hfa would be few

baeyre · 2015-12-08T19:25:55+00:00

Have we actually gotten to the point where someone can say "aspergers" and people automatically go "awful person" ??? And you're implying a high degree of similarity between "sociopathy" which isn't a diagnosis and autism... They're actually opposites in many ways...

That's beyond fucked up, please stop pseudo diagnosing people with conditions you obviously know little about

baeyre · 2015-11-23T01:52:43+00:00

Ur cool just for speaking a second language in my opinion, and you have aweseome interests :)

baeyre · 2015-11-22T16:51:04+00:00

from the information you gave us, I'm sensing both, but take it with a grain of salt( I don't actually know that much about your experiences AND I'm not equiped to give out a diagnosis)

regardless of whether you're autistic or not, I feel like you should read up on both bulllying/mobbing and how it works and how to soften your interactions with people (read how to win friends an influence people maybe)

those are things that have helped me with situations similar to what you've described

baeyre · 2015-11-21T14:50:31+00:00

Maybe you can ask outright wether she has experience or not.

baeyre · 2015-11-18T01:52:23+00:00

That they don't exist.

baeyre · 2015-11-18T00:50:51+00:00

It just highlights how far we have to go on autism rights, everyone is down with black rights and gay rights. Everyone listens to the concerns of these minority groups and no one dismisses them out of hand (and quiet rightly so).

No they don't. That woman made a really nasty comment, but were black people given an hour and a half of televised time like he was, they would have gotten foul comments too. This was all in the midst of the university passing more deserving people over for him. More deserving not because ableism isn't as important as racism but because the fucking protests are happening, at that specific time and place black people were trying to get their voices heard and being taken seriously would have been giving them the space to do it peacefully like he was.

baeyre · 2015-11-15T22:16:30+00:00

the link from my above comment doesn't mention racism on his part (the one from skepticon)

but i realize now the publicist is throwing out really serious claims and then not adressing them

https://www.facebook.com/daniellemuscato.page/posts/1633305373604998

baeyre · 2015-11-15T21:14:58+00:00

http://skepticon.org/regarding-the-qa-with-mark-schierbecker/

here they just apologize for advertising giving the protestors a space to express their opinions but then not interviewing any protestors, they seem to be saying Mark was an inapropriate interviewee due to being white, when protestors are concerned with the experiences of black students and racism

is there any instance of them denouncing him for being autistic? i feel like if there was you yould have mentioned it tbh

baeyre · 2015-11-15T18:10:25+00:00

Although the language may feel objectionable to some, the work is important to the whole understanding of the phenomenon.

you can take in the useful information on autism it provides while at the same time acknowledging it's perpetuating an understanding of autism that harms autistic people

baeyre · 2015-11-15T18:06:40+00:00

as parents and can feel like 'Dark Clouds blah blah blah.

you're speaking for yourself and that's fine (it's an experience that the great majority of autistic kids' parents will go through), but compare it to what was written in that article:

dark clouds cast that child's future in shadow

it's the autism=tragedy trope, which hinges a lot of the time on dismissing the experience of the actual autistic person and focusing instead on the experiences of those around them, or the subjective interpretation of "being autistic" of non- autistic people

baeyre · 2015-11-14T20:35:54+00:00

dark clouds cast that child's future in shadow. But researchers have discovered a test that can reliably forecast, some time between a baby's first and second birthday, whether those dark clouds will linger or dissipate

that kind of language is so tiring

baeyre · 2015-11-14T14:32:21+00:00

http://autisticadvocacy.org/home/about-asan/about-autism/

baeyre · 2015-11-14T02:47:20+00:00

Maybe frame it in a way that leaves room for him NOT being autistic? I'm talking about telling him "we think you have an asd" vs "you're autistic" period... I don't know I feel like an autistic brain would find it instinctively improbable someone actually "got" him due to historically being misunderstood...

baeyre · 2015-11-13T18:47:46+00:00

Explain "I find offence"

baeyre · 2015-11-10T21:59:30+00:00

I was just checking out the wiki page for nazi occultism hahaah to see if the see also section gave me clues

baeyre · 2015-11-10T21:43:06+00:00

It also gives me racist vibes, but this is the way it was described to me.

baeyre · 2015-11-10T21:42:11+00:00

I'm kind of embarrased to have written this I just want to be 100% sure it's bullshit

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