• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yes, but that’s not due to autism, that’s due to the way society treats autistic people.

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        My daughter has it, and I’d say about 5-10 years ago it changed. The amount of acceptance is so much higher than it used to be. Obviously we need work, but hell in my city there are special times at both grocery stores and movie theatres for neuro-diverse people. The difference to a decade ago is extreme.

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        1 year ago

        It’s beginning to change in the academic world. The deficit model is falling for the difference/diversity paradigm.

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      actually everyone treat others like shit. But what NT have is a much stronger upport circle and fewer difference.

      By fewer difference I mean that you cant pick on someone that everyone around him does : A boss can’t really bully a NT for using implicite dicourse when all of their collegues does the exact same, they would immediately realise something is wrong. The average NT knowing jackshit about autism, it can be easy to trick them into thinking that ND should “just make an effort” to understand implicite discourse.

      That’s sad part, we are technically all targeted with the same amount of flak so if you are slightly out of cover, you get blasted away

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            So you don’t have any idea why so many people on the spectrum commit suicide but you don’t think it’s the way they’re regularly mistreated?

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              i think that the mistreatment of folks with autism is not enough to explain to have this high of a suicide rate, and that autism does just make life harder to deal with, regardless of discrimination

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                And yet you have no other answers. So until you have them, that seems to be a good working theory.

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                  i think working off answers we do have is a better idea, actually

                  such as suicide being one of the top three causes of death for autistic people. The other two being heart disease and epilepsy complications, and them on average dying under 50 years of age.

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                    1 year ago

                    I suggest to read more than one article about the double empathy problem at first.

                    We have multiple papers stating it’s the way we are mistreated the issue. Autists don’t have a lack of empathy, communication, socialization, non verbal language, etc. We express them in a different way, an Autistic way! This is as valid as the neurotypical way.

                    We need to stop internalizing ableism and self blaming us for everything and nothing. These are direct consequences of mistreatments too.

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                    1 year ago

                    How is that an idea of what the cause of suicide is? Where is the explanation of cause there? Because I gave an explanation of the cause. So far, all you’ve done is play coy.