Aspies For Freedom

This is brilliant...  Click on the quote:

Nobody's watching this or interested enough to comment? *shock* I thought she was so profound...

http://hatingautism.blogspo t.com/2007/01/autistic -woman-celebrates-brain-damage.html


Fore-Sam ridiculed the video like the arse he is, even saddening me a little bit.  

Feel free to comment on there.

This is gonna sound really cruel, but I don't mean it like this at all..

but i'm actually kinda glad i'm not stuck in my own little world permanantly, sure I'll talk about Shinra and the Empire and all that jizz for ages :p but I like my sense of reality thankyaverymuch.

Thanks for listening, Cheps

Ian

Thanks for the comments... I really want to discuss this because I think it's fundimental to obtaining fair and equal rights for people who are not looked upon as people because they aren't a certain level of 'functioning'.

Ian, I don't think she was trying to say that her way is better, or even that she wants to experience the world that way full time, but rather, to explain that she is thinking when she is doing that - that those people who are behave in such a way aren't any less thinking people just because they haven't figured out how to communicate with other people.

I think she is pointing out the discrimnation of those who can talk against those who can't. On her blog is a bit more from other autistics about the way they 'listen' or communicate with their environment which is a heightened sense of observation and understanding of 'things'... almost to the point of seeing these things as individuals who are trying to communicate back to them.

In my mind, this is a VERY artistic way of viewing the world and I think many artists are more in touch with the colors, textures and sensations of the objects in their environment than your average person who walks on by without 'smelling the roses'.

I don't look at the video at all as hate autism guy does as an advocacy of just letting people 'trip' but more of a statement that these are PEOPLE who should not be tortured and thought of as mindless vegatables - they are worth the effort of reaching, not just so they can think and communicate like us, but because if they can, we could learn that they have a lot to offer us as well.

If you read her blog you'll see she is EXTREMELY articulate and brilliant - yet she plays in water.  What does that tell me? It says her mind is active and alert and thinking in ways that other people who are bound to language don't - and that her brain was capable and functioning well BEFORE she learned to type and tell us what she was thinking.

How many other brilliant autistics are written off just because they haven't learned to speak English yet?

It was very insiteful. The way in which it was made was brillant; showing stimming which may appear quite odd among NTs or even aspies, and then explaining what it means in detail, demanstrating that even an accepting viewer might still hold prejudgces.