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Brilliantly put.Related content
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I need to remember this.
So many autistic people (sometimes including myself) say it would be better to have been born non-autistic. But that's not the way reality works.
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"I am not anti-social, society is anti-me!"
Something I saw and put on a T-shirt. I do agree with the statement above though. Partly why feel so negative about Aspergers.
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This is true for so many aspects of life. So much of society wants to force us to conform to what they consider to be "normal," and in many cases they do so not because doing so is actually good for us, but because it serves the interests of those who define what is "normal." I find I get SO tired of hearing what "professionals" tell us we ought to be or how we ought to behave.
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"Brilliantly put"; I second that. And if necessary, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, times infinity ad infinitum.
Indeed, coping mechanisms are good. But society needs to smarten up, too.
"Well, from now on, a lot o' people's gonna find a whole lot o' things ten times more startling. Ten times more surprising. It all depends on where their head's at. Let's pretend that a flyin' saucer's comin' down; instead of checkin' it out, and really seein' what it's about, they're gonna shoot it down, first of all. In other words, it's an unknown thing. So this is very unknown to the people. It's a surprise, isn't it? But they should try to, y'know, get into it; see what it's really about."
~ Jimi Hendrix
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