Originally Posted by
scissorhands
All I'm wishing is to lower the bar on 'disability'
'Disability spectrum' is a state construct, pertaining to tax funded services
It moves as social changes dictate who 'we' as a society feel needs assistance
Check out all the wheelchair ramps and bigger toilets that are almost never used
The budget at autismnz for adult aspies is $20 a month, for the whole of auckland....it covers coffee and biscuits, which actually do more harm than good for significant autisms....
2 drop in meetings at their offices a month so they can monitor your behaviour
No courses for social skills, as they do not really wish you to improve your lot, at all
10,000's of undiagnosed aspies in orks alone....
This is the next human rights frontier since race equality and womens issues.
Big problem, aspies cannot self advocate, so are at the mercy of corrupt charities
Time is ticking down for these thieves and liars of my people.
Fuck - you're stuck in the WRONG approach ... Aspergers is NOT a disease that needs to be cured. I've NEVER had any sort of training course for social skils - people either get on with me or fuck 'em .. I refuse to change to meet their expectations ... (being polite is being polite)
Yeah, I agree - money for tea and biscuits (sugar bombs) is a pretty stupid thing for the Society to be doing - ONE reason why I have nothing to do with them ... (another is that despite being a high functioning one, my preference would be to sit in the corner silently rocking to myself - so I am pretty anti-social and a loner .. Riding bikes is just sitting still and silent and rocking - at high speed. I love Internet communication - I'm not forced to look at people's faces or in their eyes when I communicate this way)
Foucault was right - Society defines mental illneses to exclude people and to control society - I refuse to be excluded, I refuse to be defined outside the norm ... I pretty much refuse to be defined! I'm here and deal with me, not some fucking construct ... I'm different - a lttle more different than the average - but fuck we are all individuals ...
Get over youself - you are not what others define you as ..
Originally Posted by
Drew
That's all well and good. My family had to deal with the issues pertaining to physical disability for eighteen years, until my brothers death. Those ramps and toilets that 'don't get used', we had to search those out every time we wanted to do something.
Your 'next issue', is high on he list to you. But it's just another thing to soak up the woefully underfunded health budget for ALL disabled people to others.
Try and see a bigger picture, and not focus on trying to get funding for one small percentage of special needs.
One on one teaching/training is the best way to help 'your people', no? So go the education budget, the health system is overloaded now.
Drew's right .. we are non-neurotypical - So fucking what !!! There is a greater need for the health and education spend than to babysit a bunch of under/over developed socially inept self-centred (and I really mean that .. some Auts are so self centred they don't even acknowledge the world around them - wanna argue??? I know what goes on inside my non-neurotypical head ... ) people who see the world a little different from the rest of the population ...
Other people deal with much more serious disabilities issues every day - up to and including (as Drew says) fatal ones ... the only thing fatal about Aspergers is that sometimes we manage to kill ourselves ...
Get over yourself. You're not disabled - just think differently to the majority of the people around you ...
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
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