VoidCat
Pronouns: he/him/they/them
most of what I think is in vague images,memories and feelings...hardly any words...often I translate. Quoting others to explain my thoughts is easier...So here is what I'm thinking about:
"Affective Deprivation Disorder (AfDD) is a relational disorder resulting from the emotional deprivation sometimes experienced by the partner (or child) of persons with a low emotional/empathic quotient or alexithymia.
Coined by researcher Maxine Aston, AfDD was first applied to partners of adults with Asperger Syndrome, many of whom showed disturbing physical and psychological reactions to the lack of emotional reciprocity they were experiencing in their relationship. Maxine was later to broaden AfDD's applicability to include disorders other than Asperger's such as depression, eating disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, personality disorder, and substance abuse disorder in which the same low emotional intelligence or alexithymia is a key relational factor.-Affective Deprivation Disorder"
He's not even a boy really, but the shell of a boy, an exquisite cutout of a child with no actual stuffing. He is damaged … deformed … disgraced. And his disgrace is my own.
—Whitney Ellenby on her autistic child
Take a second and think back to your early teen years. Think carefully about the bullying situation at your school... Now, picture what would happen if someone distributed a sheet of paper with private information about you on it. Your porn habits. Discussion of bathroom habits. There's even a statement about the Benny Hill song playing during you having sex - but only IF you have sex, that is - the paper also mentions that no one will ever be interested in you, in that way. This paper makes the rounds of your class, grade, school, and teachers.
Once you have a good, clear picture of this scenario, change that sheet of paper to a book. Not any book, but one that's a NYT best seller. It's ALL about you, and is getting media attention. The scope of readers is far beyond your school now. Instead of your best friend, the person who printed such intimate details about you - without your permission - for the world to see? That was your mom. You're now 15 years old. Picture that.
—Marie Porter on To siri with love...a book a mother of an autistic child writing about how horrible autism is
The solipsism that is so much at the heart of autism makes him unable to understand that someone's needs and desires could ever be separate from his own, let alone more important... How do you say “I’m sterilizing my son” without sounding like a eugenicist?"
—Judith Newman the person who wrote To Siri With Love
Damnata, invisus, ubique
Ab omnibus, ad infinitum- damned, hated, everywhere,by everyone forever!-City of the Dead
Eurielle
I'm tired of neurotypical people calling autistics burdens at the moment...
I'm surrounded by messages like these all the time...autism is not a curse....
What more can I say? why are people so cruel to those with autism?
"Affective Deprivation Disorder (AfDD) is a relational disorder resulting from the emotional deprivation sometimes experienced by the partner (or child) of persons with a low emotional/empathic quotient or alexithymia.
Coined by researcher Maxine Aston, AfDD was first applied to partners of adults with Asperger Syndrome, many of whom showed disturbing physical and psychological reactions to the lack of emotional reciprocity they were experiencing in their relationship. Maxine was later to broaden AfDD's applicability to include disorders other than Asperger's such as depression, eating disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, personality disorder, and substance abuse disorder in which the same low emotional intelligence or alexithymia is a key relational factor.-Affective Deprivation Disorder"
He's not even a boy really, but the shell of a boy, an exquisite cutout of a child with no actual stuffing. He is damaged … deformed … disgraced. And his disgrace is my own.
—Whitney Ellenby on her autistic child
Take a second and think back to your early teen years. Think carefully about the bullying situation at your school... Now, picture what would happen if someone distributed a sheet of paper with private information about you on it. Your porn habits. Discussion of bathroom habits. There's even a statement about the Benny Hill song playing during you having sex - but only IF you have sex, that is - the paper also mentions that no one will ever be interested in you, in that way. This paper makes the rounds of your class, grade, school, and teachers.
Once you have a good, clear picture of this scenario, change that sheet of paper to a book. Not any book, but one that's a NYT best seller. It's ALL about you, and is getting media attention. The scope of readers is far beyond your school now. Instead of your best friend, the person who printed such intimate details about you - without your permission - for the world to see? That was your mom. You're now 15 years old. Picture that.
—Marie Porter on To siri with love...a book a mother of an autistic child writing about how horrible autism is
The solipsism that is so much at the heart of autism makes him unable to understand that someone's needs and desires could ever be separate from his own, let alone more important... How do you say “I’m sterilizing my son” without sounding like a eugenicist?"
—Judith Newman the person who wrote To Siri With Love
Damnata, invisus, ubique
Ab omnibus, ad infinitum- damned, hated, everywhere,by everyone forever!-City of the Dead
Eurielle
I'm tired of neurotypical people calling autistics burdens at the moment...
I'm surrounded by messages like these all the time...autism is not a curse....
What more can I say? why are people so cruel to those with autism?
