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This is hilarious!

From DSN-IV (The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of 'Normal'

Disorders) http://isnt.autistics.org/

About This Site

This site is an expression of autistic outrage.

About a year ago I learned I was on the autistic spectrum. Inspired

by this discovery, I read everything I could get my hands on about

the autistic spectrum. Much of it makes sense-- for the first time in

41 years, I had a description, albiet an unexpected one, that fit me.

But a lot of what I've found out there, mostly written by " experts "

and " professionals " , has been arrogant, insulting, and just plain

wrong. My bête noire of the moment is finding my emotions described

as " flat " . As someone with considerably greater expertise in my

emotions than the " experts " , I can state unequivocally that my

emotions are not " flat " . They are different, yes, but they are most

certainly not " flat. "

Perhaps tomorrow I'll be fired up over being described as " lacking

empathy " . Or I'll be outraged at an exceptionally clueless " training "

method being inflicted upon autistic kids. Or maybe it will be some

new paper written by some " expert " from the perspective that

neurotypical perception is correct, and my brain is a genetic mistake.

My brain is a jewel. I am in awe of the mind that I have. I and my

experience of life is not inferior, and may be superior, to the NT

experience of life.

Hence, this " Institute " . Persons on the autistic spectrum and NT

supporters are invited to submit papers to the Institute, and to

share your observations in " Current Research " (the guestbook).

-muskie