You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That they’ll never pay taxes or write poems. That they are, in essence, collateral damage.
I’d like to introduce you to my daughter.
You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That they’ll never pay taxes or write poems. That they are, in essence, collateral damage.
I’d like to introduce you to my daughter.
For a very crude analogy, you can imagine a normal four wheel car as nuerotypical.
Just because I have learned to balance a two-wheel car through sheer determination and willpower does not mean that I don’t notice that I’m missing two fucking Wheels. I’m just exceptionally good at masking deficiencies as I drive from a to b and not letting people notice as my overdeveloped other skills can be used to compensate .
All that high functioning means is that I am aware of what society expects me to do. Manually take corrective actions to meet expectations and maintain appearances constantly. It’s tiring. Draining exhausting.
Right, but there are also plenty of people who just ride a bike and get by just fine. Four wheels may be typical, but a vehicle is not defined by having four wheels. And having four wheels doesn’t do you a ton of good when they’re all flat and misaligned.
I don’t think you should have to balance a car on two wheels, and I’m sad that you do need to. But having “a car” in this analogy isn’t something that should be baseline necessary to be considered a human being.
You seem to be missing the point of my analogy. I don’t have a bicycle frame. I have a car frame but only two wheels
If I had meant bicycle or motorcycle I would have used those words
I chose the analogy that I did because it best illustrates the struggle that I feel internally watching other people operate and live their lives normal lives