2nd February 2006, 09:49 AM
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Join Date: Jan 1970
Location: Port Macquarie
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Originally Posted by crash
JFC is a class act, Probably bipolar [I'm an espie: Aspergous syndrome, a mild version of autism] just like the handbrake is [bipolar] but we get on and understand each other. Check out 'wrong planet.com' to understand JFC and yours truly. I'm a long term member !!! :-) We are easily misunderstood. Imagine a zebra in a paddock of horses. Looks like a horse, eats like a horse but there is somthing not quite right..... Get the picture? Of course the zebra is a nice bloke but unsettles the horses no end. He can't help it, it's who he is :-)
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Gday Crash
I know exactly where you are coming from... My partner has a 4 yo boy... He is autistic... can hardly put 2 words together without gibbering... But they (the so called experts) tell us he will learn to hide is autism as he gets older..
I feel that is unfair.. imagine having to hide who you really are just to be socially acceptable...
I have done a lot of reading on the subject and I obviously am no expert, but I am beginning to get an understanding of how autistic people operate. I have read many articles written by people who are autistic, and sometimes I think jeez they think a lot like me.. There is black there is white... there is no grey. They use people to their own ends, they respond in the way they that they suspect others would expect them to respond.. That is why on occassions, people with autism do scare the horses, their respones, to US seem inappropriate. Because they don't know the appropriate response (from society's point of view that is) and respond in an unusual way at times.
People who have no close contact with autistic or Aspergous syndrome people, really have no clue as to how they operate, and are unsettled by them.. People with full on Autism can be a handful, but they are not stupid, they are VERY HIGHLY focussed individuals, to the point of being single minded about a subject that interests them... the worst part of full on autism (to my way of thinking) is the apparent lack of ability to truly love.. they may mouth the words, but words are all they are..(I am sure some of us have said I love you to someone to placate them or to geet em into bed.. I know I have )they view that as a silly thing to waste time on.. and it is hard on my partner knowing her son goes through the motions of loving her, but is incapable of it.. it's not his fault, that is the way he is and we accept him for who he is.. we just wish society would....
Some here could be well advised to do the same  |