(recommended article) Autism and the Sacred

[Guest guest]

I highly recommend this article to understand better why some disability

communities can be so fragmented.

I would add to the list of sacralized sensitivities the term " lack of

empathy " , which many Aspies cannot read without turning red with rage.

They often complain that the term is used by authors (usually NTs) to

generalize everyone with an ASD. When it is often the Aspie who is

really doing the generalizing and hyperfocusing on their own rigid

definition of what it means to lack empathy.

Excerpt:

" We sacralize *individuals*. St. Temple of Grandin. St. Simon of

Theory of Mind. St. Alison and St. Ari and St. and all.

We sacralize our own *sensitivities* with " trigger warnings " and poems,

simultaneously sacralizing our own *insensitivity* by calling all

complaints about our behavior " ableist " or " the argument from tone. " "

more...

Autism and the Sacred

http://thautcast.com/drupal5/content/autism-and-sacred

Enjoy (or not),

~CJ