I'm struggling to cope with the fact that there are people out there who seem to hate the disabled.
In response to the proposed human fertilisation and embryology bill someon wrote
It is correct for the state to stop disabled children being born because it will be the state and the tax payer that will pick the bill up to support that child throughout his life.
Then there was this article in the Times in January
A tip for those with doubtful disability
Some half a million young people claim to be too sick to work and are in receipt of state benefits for their ailments. Of those, the majority are pretending to be doolally while the rest put on a bit of a limp when the woman from the work and pensions department comes around. The number under the age of 35 claiming disability benefits exceeds the number out of work for legitimate reasons, such as idleness or stupidity.
This is a consequence of the mental health charities forever insisting that we are all crippled or bonkers in some way, that disablement is a valid lifestyle choice and that no stigma should attach to those who have no legs or howl at the moon. Well indeed – and the message has got through: our young people think of disablement as both fashionable and lucrative.
They need to be disabused of this notion. Next time you see a young person in a wheelchair, tip it over and drag the occupant down to the nearest job centre, lecturing him or her all the while on the dignity of labour.
There is an article here about hate crimes.
And of course there are all the pro-cure people - in particular the ones who won't listen to those of us who don't want to be cured and say we are brain damaged and make out nothing we say or think is valid.
I just don't know how to cope with all this hatred. What did we do to deserve this?
It is correct for the state to stop disabled children being born because it will be the state and the tax payer that will pick the bill up to support that child throughout his life.
No. It is wrong for people to discriminate in employment. Most people with disabilities could and do want to work. Why can't research and funds be focused on helping people work with accommodations and adaptations rather than trying to eliminate these people all together? If killing people with disabilities were legal, it would happen. Maybe it happens more often than we know.
Someone told me that they can not get a job working with kids because they were once admitted to a psychiatric hospital for depression. They told me that Homeland Security keeps track of that. If this is true, America is a ***** country. Americans go on and on about their rights and how they have to protect freedom when they violate their own citizens rights all the time.
Additionally, if someone from another country has been in a psychiatric facility they are not allowed to enter America.
It used to be the case in the UK that if you had been 'sectioned' then you needed to wait 5 years (during which you would have to not be receiving psychiatric treatment) before you could study at a college or university or be eligible to apply for certain jobs.
Additionally, if someone from another country has been in a psychiatric facility they are not allowed to enter America.
It used to be the case in the UK that if you had been 'sectioned' then you needed to wait 5 years (during which you would have to not be receiving psychiatric treatment) before you could study at a college or university or be eligible to apply for certain jobs.
Then people wonder why no one wants to get help. Why? If autism isn't ruining your life, getting help for it will.
Additionally, if someone from another country has been in a psychiatric facility they are not allowed to enter America.
As of when?
Lethal injections for the elderly? Do they have to dig their own graves too first?
I cope with it the same way I cope with pretty much anything I don't like, I get drunk and write a blog about it, or an Encyclopedia Dramatica article, or I just phone or email the person that's annoying me and I call them an asshat.
Hi Aliengirl, sadly I think there are always going to be people who want to find any excuse to hate. The quote you have there about tipping someone out of their wheelchair and taking them to get a job will make any reasonable person ignore that whole article... When someone says so obviously offensive things like that, most people will be influenced against them, no matter what else they say. This is a good thing.
Don't let these stupid people influence you. Just be who you are and do what you can to influence the world... however small... letting yourself out there with people is a big thing... if you can get someone's respect, then you immediately change their view of people on the autistic spectrum...
Additionally, if someone from another country has been in a psychiatric facility they are not allowed to enter America.
As of when?
Lethal injections for the elderly? Do they have to dig their own graves too first?
I think this has been since 9/11 but I'm not 100% sure when this regulation came into force.
Hi Aliengirl, sadly I think there are always going to be people who want to find any excuse to hate. The quote you have there about tipping someone out of their wheelchair and taking them to get a job will make any reasonable person ignore that whole article... When someone says so obviously offensive things like that, most people will be influenced against them, no matter what else they say. This is a good thing.
Don't let these stupid people influence you. Just be who you are and do what you can to influence the world... however small... letting yourself out there with people is a big thing... if you can get someone's respect, then you immediately change their view of people on the autistic spectrum...
Thanks Bella for your kind words
Well, one of my ideas would to retaliate with insults like this:
"You know what? NT's were invented by us to make a better quarry other than boar."
Do you find that sometimes, when you keep hearing people's negative views and being subjected to their discrimination over and over again, that you start to believe it and wonder if they are right?
Sometimes I just feel so useless and like I'm never going to get anywhere and the world just doesn't want people like me.
Wow, that seems to be common nowadays--you go in for depression and discover you have autism! That's how it happened for me, too. My psychiatrist luckily had an Asperger's son, and she figured out I had all the same traits. I really got a handle on how I thought once I learned about Asperger's; and eventually I managed to beat the depression, too--it took meds and counseling, but learning to handle stress was a big help too, and part of that stress comes from being autistic in a neurotypical world. The way I see it, the more you know about yourself, the better you'll be able to handle what life throws at you...
Definitely... if he can still enjoy fishing, he has at least got something. Depression ruins enjoyment most of the time, and that really ruins life in general. However, apparently if you have depression, you lose motivation, anticipatory pleasure, and energy to a greater degree than you lose actual enjoyment; so if you can force yourself to do something you enjoy, you actually will enjoy it to some extent. During early treatment for depression, doing things you enjoy (whether you want to or not) is a common tactic. Usually once the antidepressants start to kick in and you're capable of dragging yourself out of your bed.
Oh, by the way: Major depression is episodic. That is, it doesn't last a lifetime, even if untreated... meaning that eventually, things are just about guaranteed to get better. (Obviously treatment's a better idea than not--shorter episodes, less risk of recurrence.)
I'm struggling to cope with the fact that there are people out there who seem to hate the disabled.
...Then there was this article in the Times in January
...Next time you see a young person in a wheelchair, tip it over and drag the occupant down to the nearest job centre, lecturing him or her all the while on the dignity of labour.
...And of course there are all the pro-cure people - in particular the ones who won't listen to those of us who don't want to be cured and say we are brain damaged and make out nothing we say or think is valid.
I just don't know how to cope with all this hatred. What did we do to deserve this?
Interesting quote.
Especially in the light of the news bulletin I watched earlier. In America, some cops had taken a male wheelchair user to the police station over some traffic violation or something. Apparently, some cop asked the guy (seated in a wheelchair) to stand up so he could search him. Obviously, he couldn't. CCTV camera from the reception area showed the police officer physically tipping the man out of his wheelchair, onto the floor and searching him on the ground.
Apparently, none of the other staff in the reception at the time filed a report or complaint about their colleagues behaviour.
Shocking. Quite appalling.
To be honest, I get quite irate at the eugenics type theories and so on. I try not to take it personally though, because people tend to be ignorant. I mean, when I mentioned on another forum that I'm Aspie, one of the members was very patronising and said he was sorry, but he was just an @rsehole, like he usually is, terribly ignorant and judgemental. Given that I don't respect the opinions of such ignoramouses, I don't take it too personally or get too wound up about it.
"You might mean it well, but you're being an ****"