Aspies For Freedom

I take it the you take exception to myth no. 4 since it is bolded.  So do I.  It may be diagnosed at 44 months but that just the diagnosis.  

I also don't like myth no. 7

The thousands of adults are here and in other AS forums.

Hi. Can you see me waving at you? I know I'm just one person, but there HAS to be others like me. In fact, there are a few in my family. And that's just MY family.

Myth #4 is funny. I don't think someone being diagnosed at 44 months of age proves they weren't born that way.

So, if someone has cancer growing inside them, do they only have it when they're diagnosed, or did they have it and not know before? (I'm sorry. I'm not likening autism to cancer, I'm just trying to point out that the age of diagnosis has nothing to do with when they actually "got" the thing.)

They missed the last one off -

Myth number nine: Newspapers repeat falsehoods so much that it becomes taken for truth.

Err, its not a myth. :roll:

Joseph Goebbels said something like that.

  "Repetion makes a lie into a truth"

Hey Crys, when I post an article for us all to laugh at and you quote it, can you not do it in a way that says "Marie wrote:" and instead just says "Quote" like Theosoph did. You know I don't believe that poo! :wink:

umm...i don't like this one ethier.  this one promotes the "don't hit the kid" parenting that i don't like.  even though i had sensory overload, we were taught to behave in a way that it is not disrputive in public....and sometimes a spanking is what we needed.

does that mean the 98 percent that aren't savant are useless?  give the rest of us a bit of slack.  autistics are useful in any way, we don't have to be savant....duh. :evil:

let's see, they didn't fit the old diagostic critera and mabye many of them don't want to be diagnosed due to the stigisim they are given in the media.  i also suspect my family to be autistic, although not tested.

it was rare when i was diagonsed way back, but i was mainstreamed...

90% of autism is genetic, so mabye it's true for the 10% where it's not...we're not sure...but for the most part, you're born autistic.  and to compare it to something else...you could be pregant for 8 months and only find out hours before going into labor (true story for a friend of mine), does that mean they weren't pregant until diagosed?

at least they dispell the no emotion myth.  it's not easy to tell when the rest of them are feeling etheir...so there.

and why they think autism is just a children thing?  they think that autstic adults don't exist?  i would like to know what they think happens to autistic children when they grow up...

nice try....but still some yuckiness.  how about dispelling myths about the rest of everyone else?  like this: myth #1, nt's show their true emotions all the time.
not true, they can supress their emotions to where nobody can catch their sneaky underhanded tatics and be a meanie. :twisted:

Where are all us aspie/autistic adults?  We're RIGHT HERE!  And we're choosing to NOT get dx'd precisely because of the kind of crap that's in that article!  :evil:

So Dustin Hoffman's character in Rain Man was "high functioning"?  So what does that make those of us who live independently, work, have families, pay off mortgages and taxes but STILL have a dx of AS?
Super-super-duper x infinity high functioning?  I'm just gonna go count cards...
Alison

I wasn't diagnosed growing up because I didn't meet the criteria as a child.  It was only within the last few years that Asperger's Syndrome became known. I spent the majority of my childhood in regular schools after being mainstreamed at a young age. I was able to get a college degree, and once I get a job, I'll be living independently and paying taxes.

myth 3:   autistic children just need a spanking.

I do believe that autistic children can be taught to control themselves when they are overstimulated in an age appropriate manner.  I do not think they should be punished for stimming in most situations.  


myth 8:  autism is a rare disorder.

I would like a few adults who are intolerant of some people's autism to get tested themselves for autism.  I know one woman who may have AS or a personality disorder that is just horrible to me and some other people who may have AS and/or ADHD.  In fact, if most people got a diagnosis, there would be an epidemic of adults with personality disorders, chronic depression and low intelligence.

Heh heh.  :twisted:
Maybe everyone should be tested before being allowed to publish public statements on autism/AS.  
Suddenly we'd be in the majority....  :wink:

Oh, sorry. I edited it. I just used the quote button, and it said that naturally.

That's a good example. Better than mine was. That actually happened to my aunt. She didn't know until she went into labour. She went to the general hospital for severe back pain, and they told her she was at the wrong hospital. She needed to go over to the IWK maternity ward.

Yeah, that's pretty much the same as me, except I dropped out of college. I have a job (but it doesn't pay as much as a career might), I live with my husband, and I just began paying taxes.

I actually thought it was kind of funny b/c it's taken me over a year to figure out how to quote. For some reason the things that everyone seems to get, are the hardest for me to figure out. My friends in high school used to call them my "Kelly Bundy" moments.