Agreeable-Time-2027 t1_iydczx2 wrote
As someone with Asperger‘s I find most of this common section disgusting and out of touch
If you don’t have a doctor diagnosed form of autism or are a parent of a severely autistic child, you have no right to post here
code8888 t1_iydh3gc wrote
I’d tend to agree here, if I’m being honest. I was one of those highly downvoted comments further up, and got my throat jumped on. I really don’t understand why this post even belongs here, let alone why so many people outside of the community have come out of the woodwork to talk about it.
This thread is leaving a bad taste in my mouth. I pulled my comment because I was tired of getting a litany of notifications about this godforsaken thread, nor did I want to give anyone here the opportunity to argue further. Better to just let this thread flounder and die with less engagement, so we can get back to the fun parts of this sub.
Edit: Jesus Christ people
Agreeable-Time-2027 t1_iydv8pa wrote
It’s depressing isn’t that so many people find it acceptable to talk about something they don’t live every day. It’s a totally lack of empathy and frankly a perfect encapsulation to the reason I never use Reddit the majority of people here are dog water. We get treated like shit. It’s hate speech disguised as a concern
code8888 t1_iydxjz3 wrote
You’d think r/singularity of all places would be home to more people like us lol
But yeah, the sheer amount of.. everything is disturbing. Bad faith arguing, baseless conjecture, drawing broad conclusions from novel research, failing to authentically engage with objections to the framing of the research itself (couched in the broad terms of a “cure” rather than the much better framing of a “treatment for distressing social deficits”). I really hate this place (Reddit as a whole, I mean).
Agreeable-Time-2027 t1_iydz9ld wrote
Yeah we are in the minority so as it has been with every other group in history we get bullied by the majority. People haven’t changed they just start hating people who can hardly defend them selfs. But yeah people fail to realize autism spectrum is a bogus term made recently by a bunch of elitist psychologist and you know they have such a great track record with that sort of thing
stupsnon t1_iydl7w6 wrote
Agreeable-Time, would love to know your thoughts on the treatment. Would you / do you feel like you would want some kind of treatment? What about this treatment?
Agreeable-Time-2027 t1_iydxkja wrote
I really appreciate you ask if like to say first. But to answer you, me personally I’m happy with who I am and don’t like the wording of “treatment” like something is wrong with me. I can’t speak for everyone especially since autism is such a vague term nowadays that different peoples situations can not be grouped up under that term. These things are very complicated and my opinion is just that
code8888 t1_iydvhnb wrote
Speaking for myself, I already got treatment in the form of social training when I was young. Simple, even less invasive, and based soundly on the principle of neuroplasticity. Has enduring effects, while the persistent effects of this approach are unclear. Many - but not all - autists who object to the notion of “treatment” are generally strongly against the treatment of the core characteristics (“symptoms”) of autism, and the implicit pathologicalization of it; frequently, those speaking of treatment refer mainly/only to social difficulties, and sometimes sensory overwhelm, but almost never the more integral parts of the autistic mind. That’s what I either failed to fully communicate or the repliers failed to understand in my now-deleted downvoted comments earlier in the thread. This issue is also an emotionally charged one for many of us, which one can perhaps see in the significant engagement with that comment and others very similar to it in this thread.
Honestly, a lot of us would rather this post just go away. Aside from your comment and a handful of others, this thread has devolved into a cesspool, of which I evidently played a role. This discussion is better reserved for another forum, but I digress. Sorry for deviating from your question.
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