Considering the short length of my inability to access blogger, I'm just copying the one real post I made in that time and putting it up a day later.
I read No, You Don't: Essays From an
Unstrange Mind. I liked it. A lot. It wasn't happy, mostly, though
there were happy parts. I do think you should get it, if you can and
haven't.
http://www.amazon.com/No-You-Dont-Essays-Unstrange-ebook/dp/B00FH2ND1O/
I got it when it was free. (haha :p)
Anyways, now that you know that I think
you should get it, here's why. Sparrow writes important things. Not
everything in her experience is true for all Autistic people, just
like not everything a neurotypical person would write about their
life would be true for all neurotypicals, but a lot
applies to more than just her. Really. She talks about the things
she's had to do to survive, and that's hard. She talks about the ways
people react to those of us who are sometimes capable of speech and
sometimes most emphatically *not*
capable of speech. It's not nice. I've been really lucky, and no
one's really taken issue with it in my time in China, which is
important because I don't *have* the option of skipping class when
I'm non-speaking. It happens too often, on too short notice, for me
to do that when I'm in class 5 days a week and 3 absences is enough
to start hurting my grade.
And
she makes a metaphor about social interaction that I've made too:
checkers and chess. You sit down at the checkerboard and it turns out
your opponent is playing chess. This doesn't end well, by the way.
Checkers loses very quickly.
http://yesthattoo.blogspot.com/2012/10/checkers-part-2.html
It's
honest. It's important. I think everyone who is autistic or interacts
with autistic should read it if they can. Not because everything in
it will apply to everyone: it won't. It can't. But some of it
probably will, and the parts that apply are important.
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