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At least with Downies you'll know that they'll be useless (not all of them but in general). Unlike the autistic people who could show potential during childhood, but then after high school start doing nothing aside from living off tax payer money.

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old comment by Brazilian Aspie Girl

You know, I live in a country where people know very little about autism (it's mostly outdated shit if people know anything about it at all). But when I read shit like OP and Citizen Justin's commentary I think "thank god most people don't even know my condition is a thing here".

TL;DR BELOW
For my whole life I wondered what the hell was wrong with me. You see, people always saw me as just a "nerd", a "geek", a "person who like to be off my myself a lot", as Citizen Justin put it. I was intelligent but "shy", and I could "get over it" if I wanted to. Because to them I was a perfectly normal person. How couldn't I be? I was a pretty and smart girl.

But I never could "get over it". The more I tried, the more I closed off and the more it was visible that I wasn't being spontaneous at all (there is more to tell about it but it's hard for me to explain in English). I went to college and handled academic stuff with unusual ease but my social life was at its worst. I ended up developing depression.

In a few months of therapy, I casually mentioned this neighbor that insisted I had "some problem" (i.e. autism) because I didn't talk when I was little (I started talking when I was two and it took me even longer to starting talking to anyone other than my parents). The thing is, even my pediatrician suggested a specialist because I was taking too long to talk. But then I talked, then I went to kindergarten and I was very good at school and everyone thought I was fine.
Something probably lit up in my therapist's mind because she took this passing account very seriously.
Now she's almost certain that I am, indeed, autistic (I still need to make a detailed evaluation though). And I'm much happier now that I know what is "wrong" with me. It isn't shyness or fucking anxiety as my pediatrician/homeopath (I know, I know... blame my mother) insisted. It's having a brain wired in an unusual way and living in a world that wasn't made with people like me in mind.

TL;DR OP is an asshole and so are people that say that high-functioning autists/aspies don't have an actual problem and special needs.

old comment by Timjer

Wow, you're a jackass, you know that? As an autistic person myself, life wasn't easy for me. Until I was finally diagnosed at age 16, after I got a depression (that I never got out of, BTW), I always wondered what the hell was wrong with me. I never felt like I belonged with others because I was different, and nobody else seemed to understand it. They just thought I was antisocial. Got bullied a lot, and some teachers even said it was my fault for not acting the same as everyone else.

My point is, I know my autism can be useful. I have a lot of desirable traits, such as perfectionism, an ability to greatly concentrate on a single task, honesty to a fault... But thanks to countless people who just fail to accept different people, people like you, I can only see the negative sides of my autism anymore. I have horrible self-confidence and feel like most of my potential got ruined.

But, all in all, I'd still rather be my autistic self than most if not all of the people quoted here. Such as people who think "autism" is merely an insult for people they don't like. I've seen jackasses refer to others in an argument as "autistic screaming", and quite frankly, that's really offensive.

Also, for the supposed "real Sinterklaas", you certainly don't act like one, you a**hole.

You know, it's funny. High-functioning autistic people are merely called that because we are a minority. Has anyone ever considered that maybe the roles could have been reversed? That autistic people are the norm, and the regular ones are the ones who have something wrong with them? Would you like to be treated that way?

After all, autism isn't an illness or a defect. It's just that our brains are programmed differently. Just because an Xbox can't read a Playstation disc doesn't mean it's broken. Both just work differently.

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@Brazilian Aspie Girl

For one, I'm sorry you had to go through all that stuff just because you have a condition (I really hope that's the right word for this situation, correct me if I'm wrong) that very few know of in your neck of the woods. Its a sad day when a neighbor is closer to being onto something in terms of what's going on with you than a professional doctor. Over here in the US, people know that autism exists, but they often don't know how it actually works-- which is, as you say, is in some ways worse than people not knowing about it at all. Or even worse they just don't care and use it as an insult-- kind of like some folks insult people by calling them "gay," and won't stop even if they become aware that its a childish, lame insult that reflects more poorly on themselves and their own personal beliefs than anybody they choose to target.

Its interesting that you mention speech delays. I too had a similar timeline to you in terms of learning to speak. I had a grasp of basic words as a pre-schooler but didn't fully catch onto speaking the English language until kindergarten. Even then I had to go to speech therapy in first and second grade to go sort out some lisps. Given that I did eventually learn to speak and did very well in speech therapy, it was assumed the delay was because the many ear infections I got as a baby and an infant had prevented me from hearing others' speak clearly as often as most folks got to. but maybe it was my neuroatypical/non-visual learning style self that caused the delay in speech.

(This is Salami btw)

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