@ahrimans_erbe @pathfinder @actuallyautistic
Understanding the past from an AUTISTIC rather than an ALLISTIC perspective is inherently part of being a community
You have a choice. Accept that history as YOURS. Or declare it as something that you reject.
Both are Not Possible.

if you post "we universally are like this" without specifying it means "people who just found out"
and saying it under the category #ActuallyAutistic
The implication is that you think these are the same

@ahrimans_erbe @pathfinder @actuallyautistic sitting down with "autism predates the current definition in the pathology book" means not centering the damn book as somehow inherently authoritative.

Im saying this as someone diagnosed ODD. A label that sent my disabled
Non gifted, non wasp peers
Into some kind of containment system,
Go watch the interviews and videos about JRC shock torture
Understand that those victims aren't appreciably different from people i was in sped with.

@CatHat @ahrimans_erbe @pathfinder @actuallyautistic
I was born in the 1970s. There was no autism spectrum.
To be autistic back then was a debilitating thing. The kind of thing that got you institutionalized.
Back then, if you were functional at all, you weren't called autistic. You were maybe "willfull" or "violent" or "dangerous". Maybe "stupid" or "not paying attention" or just "weird". But the treatment was all behavioral modification against your will. It was punishment.

I'm also transgender and using the DSM as a diagnostic tool kept me from figuring out it for at least an extra two or three years. It was bullshit. Trans people, similar to neurodiverse people, are better at diagnosing people based on shared, lived experiences than doctors the Doctors who've studied us.

@jrdepriest @CatHat @ahrimans_erbe @pathfinder @actuallyautistic

Look up a disgusting doctor that sent children to be murdered by Nazis named Hans Asperger.

Recognition of Autism presenting in various degrees existed long before the 70’s. It’s why many refuse to use the term ‘Aspergers syndrome’. Some of us older people still use the term. It was included in the umbrella term “Autism Spectrum Disorder” in 2013.

@BrokenArrow @jrdepriest @ahrimans_erbe @pathfinder @actuallyautistic

Asperger syndrome
Means.
Has the same neurotype as some of the victims of nazi medical experiments.
Those kids didn't do anything wrong.

Its disgusting to suggest that the history including those victims is something to erase!

@CatHat @jrdepriest @ahrimans_erbe @pathfinder @actuallyautistic

I was never called autistic.
It was always:
-the awkward kid
-the know-it-all/brown-nose
-could do a lot better if they just paid attention
-could play sports better if they participated instead of watching ants or making sounds with blades of grass
-troubled/spirited kid who would meltdown at the threat of a teacher calling home
-lazy/won’t apply themselves

@BrokenArrow
It's me you're talking about here, right? Because it sounds like you're talking about me!

@CatHat @jrdepriest @ahrimans_erbe @pathfinder @actuallyautistic

@ecosaurian @CatHat @jrdepriest @ahrimans_erbe @pathfinder @actuallyautistic

I feel ya. I knew there were others like me, they were who I made friends with. As a kid I used to imagine we were aliens.

@CatHat @ecosaurian @jrdepriest @ahrimans_erbe @pathfinder @actuallyautistic

Ooh i like that.

@CatHat @BrokenArrow @ecosaurian @jrdepriest @ahrimans_erbe @pathfinder @actuallyautistic Under the influence of Faeries, by Brian Froud (a big coffee table book we actually had on a coffee table), I daydreamed I was a changeling -- a faery swapped for a human child.

In retrospect, the description of changelings sounds somewhat like the description of an autistic child, particularly the way you could recognize a changeling by their peculiarities in speech. So maybe I was on to something.

@foolishowl @CatHat @BrokenArrow @ecosaurian @jrdepriest @[email protected] @pathfinder @actuallyautistic

High demand societies create a lack of autonomy on purpose.

I am sure I wasn't the only one faking it to fit in. Maybe I was one of the few who noticed.

@brainpilgrim @foolishowl @CatHat @BrokenArrow @ecosaurian @jrdepriest @[email protected] @pathfinder @actuallyautistic

"Fake it until you make it" I did try for 4 years solid, to get a job, to do everything everyone told me I should be able to do as part of my dad's "That's life, deal with it" attitude...

I never made it. I mentally, figuratively, and life-altering 'crashed horrifically' in a way that I didnt know until a decade later is called "autistic burnout"

@GreenRoc @brainpilgrim @foolishowl @CatHat @ecosaurian @jrdepriest @ahrimans_erbe @pathfinder @actuallyautistic

It can take a while to recover

@BrokenArrow @brainpilgrim @foolishowl @CatHat @ecosaurian @jrdepriest @[email protected] @pathfinder @actuallyautistic

I have not fully recovered, and as long as most of humanity is a threat to me, I will not be able to recover fully.

I went from walking outside 3+ days a week, to hardly ever leaving my home except for vital shopping trips, after 'crash'.

I grow more content to stay indoors as time moves on, further encouraged to isolate with the life-threatening scenarios increasing outside.

@GreenRoc

I can relate. It wasn't until I burnt out for the 3rd (?) time I started to ask questions that led to realise I was autistic.

After years of pandemic isolation I'm fighting work demands to return to the office.
Why should I?
I proved I can do the job as well (better) from home, and going on-campus exhausts me and puts me at risk. I'd rather avoid people as much as possible.

@BrokenArrow @brainpilgrim @foolishowl @CatHat @jrdepriest @ahrimans_erbe @pathfinder @actuallyautistic

@jrdepriest @ecosaurian @GreenRoc @brainpilgrim @foolishowl @CatHat @ahrimans_erbe @pathfinder @actuallyautistic

“Office occupancy”. Not vacancy, but occupancy. They have offices with too much open space, the efficiency experts have a tougher time micromanaging the peons. It becomes an unacceptable overhead expense and the ceo’s don’t want to lose their posh office