@ BlueRoses
okay first i wanna say i never??? said you were like someone who wanted to kill autistic ppl, i was just explaining the depth of the stigma...? i also wasn't trying to imply you were upset by things autistic people do (namely being nonverbal) i was literally just trying to explain to you why we do it. maybe i came off as angry, but i was just attempting to give you some insight to the questions you seemed to be asking. and to be clear, all of the following is Also just me trying to help you understand being autistic. i want to help people understand more about autistic people, genuinely, and i'm more than happy to answer any questions you might have to the best of my ability. as one person, i cannot speak for everyone, and i don't claim to, but i will speak to all of the knowledge that i have.
"less-severe autism" is also wording you should avoid. autistic people don't really exist on a scale from "normal" to "Deep In The Trenches Of Autism". everyone experiences being autistic differently, and because of that, everyone has different needs. i heard someone explain it as an ice cream bar once, and that made a lot of sense to me. different parts of being autistic, like hating certain sounds, or having a hard time going into a grocery store, are like different kinds of ice cream toppings. just because i got three different kinds of sprinkles doesn't mean that someone Else who has exactly three other toppings, experiences the world in the same way i do. some people might've gotten one or two toppings, and someone else might've gotten six. the person with one topping, the person with six toppings, and me, could all have the same exact flavor of sprinkle! maybe we're all extremely sensitive to all the happenings at the grocery store, and get overstimulated easily. saying the person who just has a single topping doesn't experience all the overstimulating things at the grocery store "as severely" as i do, even if they Do and they Really cannot go into that store, doesn't make sense. neither does telling the person with six toppings they can "suck it up" when they can't wear shirts of a certain fabric, because maybe the person who just got the sprinkles doesn't mind it.
all of our experiences, all of us as people, are unique. putting us into categories based on "how functioning" we are, instead of just listening and learning about all of us not just as "people with autism", but as people, is just... absurd. like, some people definitely need more resources than others, but trying to shove us all into certain "functioning" categories to decide what we need and who we are... doesn't work.
this also directly applies to the '-with autism' thing. you said "It makes them sound more Autistic than human." which sounds like you see autism as a simply negative Affliction, something apart from our humanity. even if you have good intentions, this kind of wording can be very harmful. autism is not some kind of disease, it's simply the way we are. i'm no good at math, sometimes i don't understand jokes, noises are much louder for me, i cry when i have to wear clothes that don't feel right, and so much more! but those things do not take away from my humanity. i am not a human despite these things, they are just as much a part of my humanity as everything else. and not every aspect of being autistic is something "Bad" either, despite what people try to make it seem like. i mean, ask me Anything about pokemon, and i can answer it without a second thought. (i'm pretty sure my brain is just a vast library of all my pokemon knowledge at this point) (this is a serious statement) (17 years of being fully saturated in pokemon will do that to you)
and @Doki is totally right on about the 'asperger's' thing, literally just ditto on that. and the whole general 'you' thing, i guess i use them pretty frequently without realizing it might sound bad. honestly ditto on Everything he said because thats like. Yeah. Exactly.
anyways, i'm probably missing something and if thats the case like, pm me, or just pm me either way if youve got more questions or anything. it's like, unprofessional but i'm like, for real tired tonight and i kind of want to go to bed.
okay first i wanna say i never??? said you were like someone who wanted to kill autistic ppl, i was just explaining the depth of the stigma...? i also wasn't trying to imply you were upset by things autistic people do (namely being nonverbal) i was literally just trying to explain to you why we do it. maybe i came off as angry, but i was just attempting to give you some insight to the questions you seemed to be asking. and to be clear, all of the following is Also just me trying to help you understand being autistic. i want to help people understand more about autistic people, genuinely, and i'm more than happy to answer any questions you might have to the best of my ability. as one person, i cannot speak for everyone, and i don't claim to, but i will speak to all of the knowledge that i have.
"less-severe autism" is also wording you should avoid. autistic people don't really exist on a scale from "normal" to "Deep In The Trenches Of Autism". everyone experiences being autistic differently, and because of that, everyone has different needs. i heard someone explain it as an ice cream bar once, and that made a lot of sense to me. different parts of being autistic, like hating certain sounds, or having a hard time going into a grocery store, are like different kinds of ice cream toppings. just because i got three different kinds of sprinkles doesn't mean that someone Else who has exactly three other toppings, experiences the world in the same way i do. some people might've gotten one or two toppings, and someone else might've gotten six. the person with one topping, the person with six toppings, and me, could all have the same exact flavor of sprinkle! maybe we're all extremely sensitive to all the happenings at the grocery store, and get overstimulated easily. saying the person who just has a single topping doesn't experience all the overstimulating things at the grocery store "as severely" as i do, even if they Do and they Really cannot go into that store, doesn't make sense. neither does telling the person with six toppings they can "suck it up" when they can't wear shirts of a certain fabric, because maybe the person who just got the sprinkles doesn't mind it.
all of our experiences, all of us as people, are unique. putting us into categories based on "how functioning" we are, instead of just listening and learning about all of us not just as "people with autism", but as people, is just... absurd. like, some people definitely need more resources than others, but trying to shove us all into certain "functioning" categories to decide what we need and who we are... doesn't work.
this also directly applies to the '-with autism' thing. you said "It makes them sound more Autistic than human." which sounds like you see autism as a simply negative Affliction, something apart from our humanity. even if you have good intentions, this kind of wording can be very harmful. autism is not some kind of disease, it's simply the way we are. i'm no good at math, sometimes i don't understand jokes, noises are much louder for me, i cry when i have to wear clothes that don't feel right, and so much more! but those things do not take away from my humanity. i am not a human despite these things, they are just as much a part of my humanity as everything else. and not every aspect of being autistic is something "Bad" either, despite what people try to make it seem like. i mean, ask me Anything about pokemon, and i can answer it without a second thought. (i'm pretty sure my brain is just a vast library of all my pokemon knowledge at this point) (this is a serious statement) (17 years of being fully saturated in pokemon will do that to you)
and @Doki is totally right on about the 'asperger's' thing, literally just ditto on that. and the whole general 'you' thing, i guess i use them pretty frequently without realizing it might sound bad. honestly ditto on Everything he said because thats like. Yeah. Exactly.
anyways, i'm probably missing something and if thats the case like, pm me, or just pm me either way if youve got more questions or anything. it's like, unprofessional but i'm like, for real tired tonight and i kind of want to go to bed.
