The Truth About Autism
27 February 2008 - 22 אדר א' 5768 by Huw
Wired reports on why “normal” ain’t and how the internet is opening up, for us “normal” folks, the realisation that we’ve been wrong.
Mute people couldn’t communicate until we invent writing.
Deaf Mutes needed sign language and Helen Keller.
Some communicate with only one eyelid blinking.
Autism?
My care provider wouldn’t even know how to work the software,” she says.



Thanks for the link. For me a whole new world was opened up last year when I received my diagnosis and I realized that I am not alone in my specific gifts and struggles. The frustration really occurs as slowly friends and family are told-most often they tell me that I couldn’t possibly be autistic, because I don’t “look autistic” (whatever that means) and because I don’t behave in ways they typically associate with autism. Regularly they now ask me things like how my disease is doing-I simply don’t know how to respond to such things. People never cease to amaze me.