Autistic Freedom
Jul. 23rd, 2016 05:59 amStimtastic makes jewelry to help people engage in the ritually taboo practice of stimming (which I do not do a whole lot of).
Thanx to Metafilter
Thanx to Metafilter
Medicalization
Feb. 11th, 2012 06:09 amThe new BDSM will pathologize a lot more mental conditions. The good news is that if meds help, you can get them at a less extortionate rate.
Thanx to Steve Green on Facebook.
Thanx to Steve Green on Facebook.
About 40 years ago, a light went on over my head. Some shrink was talking about "curing homosexuals," and I finally thought to ask the next question: of what?
I have just been reminded of those quaint old precivilized days, by an article on how snorting oxytocin* can make people more outgoing. It concluded, "More research will clearly be needed before people would be prescribed oxytocin for introversion." Cure me of what?
*Thanx to The Agitator, Radley Balko, who offered the helpful reminder "That’s tocin, not contin"
I have just been reminded of those quaint old precivilized days, by an article on how snorting oxytocin* can make people more outgoing. It concluded, "More research will clearly be needed before people would be prescribed oxytocin for introversion." Cure me of what?
*Thanx to The Agitator, Radley Balko, who offered the helpful reminder "That’s tocin, not contin"
I am not now and never have been an Aspie. When I first read about Asperger's, I thought I might have it (but then I often try on mental illnesses I read about). ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nellorat, however, pointed out ways in which the label does not apply to me, and now that I am having my head examined on a weekly basis, I am even surer that I am not one.
But I sympathize. I am in favor of neurodiversity for the same reasons I favor sexual diversity: It makes the world more interesting, suppressing it leads to gratuitous pain, and I myself do not have an acceptable niche in the present system.
What I have in common with those labeled with Asperger's is something that is approximated by terms such as introversion and inner direction: I live in my mind and deal with consensus reality from there, rather than directly living in it. I believe that a lot of what is labeled autism, ADD/ADHD, social anxiety disorder, ODD, hypersensitivity, etc. has its roots in that orientation. I hope science will get better at mapping this area, and that I myself will get better at operating from it.
The sf/fannish community has always seemed particularly hospitable to my kind. Unfortunately, there has been a tendency to subsume too much under the Asperger heading. Here is an excellent discussion of what Asperger's is and is not.
Thanx totruepenny
nellorat, however, pointed out ways in which the label does not apply to me, and now that I am having my head examined on a weekly basis, I am even surer that I am not one.But I sympathize. I am in favor of neurodiversity for the same reasons I favor sexual diversity: It makes the world more interesting, suppressing it leads to gratuitous pain, and I myself do not have an acceptable niche in the present system.
What I have in common with those labeled with Asperger's is something that is approximated by terms such as introversion and inner direction: I live in my mind and deal with consensus reality from there, rather than directly living in it. I believe that a lot of what is labeled autism, ADD/ADHD, social anxiety disorder, ODD, hypersensitivity, etc. has its roots in that orientation. I hope science will get better at mapping this area, and that I myself will get better at operating from it.
The sf/fannish community has always seemed particularly hospitable to my kind. Unfortunately, there has been a tendency to subsume too much under the Asperger heading. Here is an excellent discussion of what Asperger's is and is not.
Thanx to
truepenny(no subject)
Sep. 23rd, 2009 09:42 amAs may be obvious from my lj, I was very much influenced by Esquire's Dubious Achievements. Here's a serious version of one of their gag lines: Hire the handicapped; they'll work it out.
Thanx toandrewducker
Thanx to
andrewducker(no subject)
Jun. 18th, 2009 07:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maiac's ever-useful This Day in History has informed me that today is Autistic Pride Day. I don't think Autism or even Asperger's is a particularly useful label for me, but I am sure I am somewhere on the spectrum, and that's a place I'm happy to be.ETA: Useful resource for dealing with the problem
