Lately I am being invited to write or join autism groups as an activist or advocate. I am neither. My opinion here is totally my own because I am not the spokes person for other autistic people. They are free to join as I am free to unjoin. I am not even sure how other people with autism perceive their own selves through their personal sensory differences. I dont even know whether two people, typical or autistic -perceive the colour they call as blue the same way as each other. Because I have a sensory ( or biology or psychology or medical or whatever ) classification called autism does not make any feel of lacking inside me because I do not compare my life to any role model sort of so called typical life. How pathetic to have a role model! I have seen the struggles of typical life and the responsibility that packages up typicalism. I am okay with my freedom without responsibility. No question of wanting the diagnosis of typicalism which is the other side of the spectrum of humanity. I am happy swimming the deep than flying with stars. If someone asks whether I am happy or sad, not being able to live the way social life is supposed to be I would say that it is like asking whether a Michael Jackson wanted to trade his nose with a Julius Caesar. If he wanted, good enough and if he did not, good enough too. What about integrating education in schools that dont want it? Explaining the fact that autism is not an intellectual disability as far as I have experienced is like trying to explain Quantum Mechanics to the inventor of wheels. I would decline joining that activist group too because if the idea does not penetrate, why even bore a hole in those limited brains and force the idea? Let them turn their wheels. There is no so called autistic pride I am feeling right now. Pride is an abstract emotion. Its definition limited in my understanding. I cannot find it a anywhere around my heart or lungs or gall bladder. So saying, I would excuse myself out from joining advocacies and activism. - Tito
Posted on: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:04:41 +0000
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