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To everyone who joined these forums at some point, and got discouraged by the negativity and left after a while (or even got literally scared off): I'm sorry.
I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.
I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.
I can handle quite a lot of negativity and even abuse now, but that isn't the point. I want to help people. I want to help the people who need it the most, and I want to help people like the 1996 version of me.
I'm still figuring out the best way to do that, but as it is now, these forums are doing more harm than good, and I can't keep running them.
Thank you to the few people who have tried to understand my point of view so far. I really, really appreciate you guys. You are beautiful people.
Everyone else: If after everything I've said so far, you still don't understand my motivations, I think it's unlikely that you will. We're just too different. Maybe someday in the future it might make sense, but until then, there's no point in arguing about it. I don't have the time or the energy for arguing anymore. I will focus my time and energy on people who support me, and those who need help.
-SoulRiser
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Uhh....it really can't be cured in any way. Your actual brain wiring hasn't changed, in any way.
maybe he was misdiagnosed when he was young
This is probably the case. You do not "grow out of" being autistic. You either have it or you don't.
Quote:The whole 'Autism community' is a load of shit. There seems to be a stupid trend lately that refers to literally any group of people and state that there's a 'community' of them. Gay community, black community, female community, left-handed community, alcoholic community, fuckin' anything is now a community apparently.
It just refers to "everyone who is apart of the condition/gender/etc." I don't see how that's a load of shit. It's basically saying the same thing as "people who have autism... etc."
Quote:All autism-related charities have been total wank from my experience, they provide condescending, psuedo-scientific 'help' that fucks people over. I remember being forced to have some kind of asperger's guidance counsellor (Although the end of asperger's as an actual condition means I don't have shit, so fuck you) who would teach me about social garbage (Essentially act condescending and force me to work through shit I already knew like what metaphors were, to the extent that I simply fucked with them most of the time and paid no attention to them). They'd also give talks about how bullying is rlly bad guiz
I agree with you about the whole organization thing. As for the classification, autism itself still exists within the DSM, but then again, so does asperger's really. You gotta remember that the DSM is a guide not an authority. Also, this brings up a good point, aside from the consolidation into "autism" (which I don't think should've been done, it really wasn't a good idea, due to the fact that it's different enough to have its own subcategory) there's also alot of other bad things they just shoved in there and carried through, like the whole BPD fiasco. Again, it's a guide, not an authority; remember back when being gay was classified as a disorder? Asperger's still *does* exist.
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That organization reminds me of two places;
AmeriKKKa, KKKonservapedia and PubliKKK SKKKool.
Okay, three!! But who's counting? It's all the same. One is required, like jail time, and three of them are just plain terrible. Pretty sad too, seeing as I live in AmeriKKKa...
No, really, Autism SpeaKKKs is a hate group. The autism community (including myself) hates those motherfucking pricks. They're just as bad as sKKKool (a place that wants people to conform to stupid bullshit that will keep them from being threats to the status quo), the dumb motherfucking almighty socialist piece of shit government (who wants you to believe everything they say and follow them like sheep).
It's just like the one Pink Floyd album, Animals and Orson Welle's Animal Farm. The 'Dogs' are businessmen, the 'Pigs' are the ruthless government officials (otherwise the enemy of the 'Dogs'), and the 'Sheep' follow the 'Pigs' (a lot of people seem to follow the government through media).
But, yeah. Over 10 years of ruining and attempting to make autism extinct. Well, they should take their own advice; they should listen to us and hear Autism (the real autism, not their bullshit definition of the word) Speak.
We aren't imperfect. We are just bad in their eyes because we catch onto things that could possibly make us a threat to society. And, of course, WE ARE DIFFERENT.
Yeah, and what's even worse is that Autism SpeaKKKs makes it sound bad to have autism when, in all actuality, we have more in our brains than those sick fucks.
I heard a radio announcement, too; the commercial had a narrator that said that he knew people wiith autism, but "it wasn't until I got home one day and saw my wife. I knew something was wrong and then, I found out my son had autism (sic)". I mean, WHAT THE FUCK?! Are these motherfucking cunts serious?
So, hate group, troll, whatever you can say as an insult to these motherfuckers, I agree 100% with what you say. They are just as bad, if not worse, than white supremacy.
(07-28-2015 04:05 AM)thesupremeanarchist Wrote: They are just as bad, if not worse, than white supremacy.
They are worse. They affect people because autistic people are wired differently. They try to make all people conforming sheep "normal".
So what if I (I am autistic) am not a fan of making eye contact with people? I have a closer eye for detail than many "nerotypicals".
Yeah, so they don't become 'a threat to socciety'. Well, fuck society! It is pretty demeaning and IQ-dropping. I tried to fit in at a school I went to (before I learned I had autism, and my parents just thought I was screwing off and being misbehaved in class) and it wouldn't surprise me if my IQ lowered some.
"I is smart! Me loves school!" No fucking joke.
And yeah, there was a White House Petition that wanted Autism SpeaKKKs to be classified as a 'hate group'. Unfortunately, it didn't get enough signatures.
Hey, that's a good idea. LET'S START A PETITION AND PASS IT ON TO THE VARIOUS, AUTISM SPEAKKKS UNRELATED FORUMS! How does that sound?