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Autism seems to be a specific response to being an outlier.
Autism is poorly understood, even today. Some Autistic people are highly sensitive to certain senses, and some barely register sensory input. Some Autistic people struggle to use language to express themselves, and others have mastered communication as a special interest and powerful tool. Some Autistic people can hold down jobs and participate in society, and others are unable to reconcile their needs with the social environment.
Every Autistic trait you can identify will come with a whole slew of Autistic people telling you “Actually, I have the opposite of that trait.” And that’s normal.
That’s because, I suspect, autism is a complex neurological reaction to having various neurological traits in either significantly higher or lower proportion than neurotypical people. There is no one “Autistic” neurotype—autism seems to be what happens when your neurotype is sufficiently different that it gives rise to difficulty communicating due to a missing shared context. That’s why it’s perhaps better understood as an umbrella term, and why people squabble so much over who is or is not “really” Autistic.
I’m a verbal, married software engineer who makes a good salary and has bent the English language more or less to his will. Of COURSE I’m nothing like your 6 year old autistic nephew. But when I was 6, we probably had a lot in common.
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An essay I wrote that talks about the ways that neurodivergent life can be actively traumatizing for neurodivergent people. This essay specifically comes from an Autistic/ADHD experience.
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An essay I wrote that discusses pattern matching and the way Autistic brains seem to process/consume information.
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Tera runs a website that hosts content for and by Autistic people. This is a great place for authentic #ownvoices Autistic content, and Tera makes sure to foster a diverse set of voices from within the autistic community.
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I created this site as a place to house some of my writing about neurodiversity, and it grew into one of the more wholesome online communities I belong to. Currently at about 14k active users, this is a great place to ask questions and clarify your thinking.
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