Re: studying how to prevent us- flipping the script!

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I've written a short story about an allistic (non-autistic, includes

non-NT non-autistics like DS people and is less defined by social

context) girl in a society where autistic is neurotypical. She's

diagnosed as having allism due to difficulty with maintaining

interest and with social interaction (hypersociability and

inappropriate behavior). It's written from the perspective of her

mother, who *really* doesn't understand her.

Ettina

PS: I submitted it to a contest. If you want to read it, wait until

the contest's over (probably at end of February) - at which point if

it's accepted I'll link to it and if not I'll post it on my blog.

> " benefit of intensive and early therapy on the mysterious

disorder. "

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> If I read that right they are trying to teach autistics to be NT...

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[Guest guest]

--- I do not WANT TO be NT!

In AutisticSpectrumTreeHouse , Princess

wrote:

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> Bob and everyone,

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> I please lack of executive function-

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> Tongue in cheek (and no offense meant),

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> why don't we teach these NTs a thing or two about fitting in with

us? After all, if wwe ran the world, here is what might happen:

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> (1) Certain Nt kids would be diagnosed as too distractable to

finish a task-- with too much desire to socialize to get the job

done! No perseveration. (Autistic parents might ask where they went

wrong...)

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> (2) Some NT kids would not exercise nearly enough- after all,

rocking back and forth does burn calories. (I have done it when

alone, just because it is exercise that I can do while at my

computer. No kidding!)

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> (3) Some NTs have diagnosable rudeness. All these rude NTs need

to be taught some manners! If soneone is in a wheel chair, society

has taught people not to stare at the chair, or push it over and

laugh, but when it comes to people on the autism spectrum, these NTs

have little imagination-- they cannot see autism, so they think that

they can be rude about its effects.

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> There is a whole website like this- with " diagnosable " NT traits-

I have listed just a few! Check out

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> " Institute for the Study of the Neurologically Typical " :

<isnt.autistics.org>

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> According to this website, " there is no cure " for this mysterious

disorder.

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> " benefit of intensive and early therapy on the mysterious

disorder. "

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> If I read that right they are trying to teach autistics to be NT...

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[Guest guest]

Hi ,

I am not sure I would want to be NT either- I am used to the good parts of AS,

and could not imagine not having them. It would be so strange to be asked a

factual question, and feel like responding with a feeling instead, and never

answering at all! I cannot imagine wearing shoes that hurt, and walking a long

distance in them, just because it is stylish. Finally, I love mathematics. As

a teenager, I leraned that my NT female classmates just did not think that fit

in at all!

" Ms. " wrote:

--- I do not WANT TO be NT!

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