Blogger Widgets Ender-Chan's Thoughts: But You Don't...

Friday, June 5, 2015

But You Don't...

I'm very atypical in many ways. I'm even an oddball among fellow autistics! People may not believe me because I don't exhibit certain characteristics or do whatever they expect autistic people to do.
"You can't be autistic. You..."
  • Get good grades
  • Don't stim (ENTIRELY UNTRUE!!!)
  • Use/understand metaphors and other figures of speech
  • Have and express emotions (Really?)
  • Play a musical instrument
  • Are intelligent, but don't display any savant skills (That's a small minority, people!)
  • Hate math (There are many autistic people who hate math.)
  • Write creatively 
  • Run a blog
  • Take honors English (My courseload does not define my diagnosis! *facepalm*)
  • Have a sense of humor
  • Can cook 
  • Empathize with others (Anyone else who says this will be summarily keelhauled.)
  • You're not like Rain Man. 
"Because..."
  • It is not something that autistic people usually do.
  • Some autistic person I know cannot do that. (But they might be able to do things I can't)
  • My mind is so full of stereotypes it has no room for primary sources. (Not many people would say this to my face, but this is somewhat true.)

4 comments:

  1. Thank you for making this post and I have the same thing said to me such as "What you don't have autism you can talk?! Um a lot of people with ASD can talk

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  2. "My courseload does not define my diagnosis! *facepalm*" Exactly my thoughts, I wish it was really a non issue for people. I hardly think about it. Some of those reasons people give you are quite ridiculous.

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