I received a message with a link to a local newspaper speaking about autism.
As always they need education on the topic
I had to kindly explain the article about the promotion of aspie supremacy. What bring us to point 1.
We need to better educate journalists on the topic. I see all the time bad and pathologising articles on the subject of autism. It's like autistics aren't human or we have to be cured. It's not fine at all.
@Autistrain@actuallyautistic@neurodiversity Reading the first article, I'm disturbed by how I was very close to ending up like Musk. I'm thankful for my mother that she eventually explained to me that I wasn't "genetically superior" to others. That the only reson I seemed to know more than most kids, was because I was lucky to be born into the "literati class".
There was a period in my childhood (roughly age 8 - 12) where I was starting to run headlong into some pretty bad spikes in my Assigned Spiky Profile at Birth, and so I started to believe that exceptionally good spikes actually meant something, in more than just a "yeah, I do these things pretty well" sort of way.
Started to believe.
The TL;DR was a strong but short-lived interest in IQ tests and similar things, which I was (fortunately) nudged out of by family members at first and then by greater exposure to other people's strengths, weaknesses, and overall life experiences.
I loathe when Journalists write like were some kinda undesirables that shouldn't exist. Spreading false narratives, indirectly/directly encouraging gross negligence to autistics.
I doesn't like either when the see us as not human and that we should not exist how we are. It's the same narrative that you could read in the 1974 article on Lovaas in Psychology Today. (I have a pdf copy if needed).
The other type of article I dislike are the one depicting each initiative of an autistic and/or autistics as good, nice, adorable, minion. They don't do they research on what's behind what is said and done. They are multiple ideology and not all of them are nice one. You end with promoting bad ideology based on segregation, white supremacy, etc.
Both of them are damaging the community by sending the wrong picture of us to the people.
@Autistrain@actuallyautistic@neurodiversity Indeed, the attitudes I meet from people who believe the stereotypes and the false narratives are far too common (sometimes painful and debilitating to what I am trying to accomplish).
Gross negligence emitting from articles I don't like or agree with, can be part of the pile of information interfering with my personal wellbeing.
I want society to know the real truth of my kind. We're different, not less, not superior, valuable in our own ways.
It's also impacting my mental health and wellbeing when I read too many of these articles. It's not a good thing to read too many.
Furthermore, it would be nice if the society will be informed about how we live in reality. The propagation of the stereotype and misinformation about autism and autistic has to stop. We are valid human how we are and we deserve respect.