I have Asperger's. Supposedly. Personally, I think my shrinks have their heads up their asses. But, yeah, cognitive bias, full disclosure, etc.
It's perfectly normal to get pissed at that kind of behavior. What's important is not to condone it, but to tolerate it as best you can. Remember the episode of South Park where Mr. Garrison and Mr. Slave teach the town about the difference between tolerance and stupidity?
Anyway, the real people to be pissed at are the retards running the schools. Some dumbass politician thinks that it's a good idea to treat everyone exactly the same, so your autistic classmate has to be given a free passes for courses she can't understand, attend a classroom where the teachers have no special training or experience with autism, and interact with kids who find her an object of ridicule or a source of extreme annoyance. That's why she gets to play game boy and is given a free pass.
The problem with disciplining autistic kids is twofold: they only learn on a very primitive level, but because they're human beings, classical conditioning is considered torture. Her antics are caused by hypocritical sympathy and the resultant lack of discipline (effective or otherwise). She isn't evil nor is she a sweet little angel who doesn't understand her own actions. She needs someone to spank her, make her eat her veggies, and tell her to go to her room when she's being bad, but her condition makes that very hard.
Autistic people have a hard time learning, varying degrees of social awkwardness, and an abnormal rate of development, but otherwise, they're ordinary people.
That episode of South Park was one of the best lessons in tolerance I had when I was younger, better than any school talk or educational video. It was when I finally understood: "tolerating something doesn't mean you have to like it".
Is it normal That i can't stand HIGHLY autistic people?
← View full post
I have Asperger's. Supposedly. Personally, I think my shrinks have their heads up their asses. But, yeah, cognitive bias, full disclosure, etc.
It's perfectly normal to get pissed at that kind of behavior. What's important is not to condone it, but to tolerate it as best you can. Remember the episode of South Park where Mr. Garrison and Mr. Slave teach the town about the difference between tolerance and stupidity?
Anyway, the real people to be pissed at are the retards running the schools. Some dumbass politician thinks that it's a good idea to treat everyone exactly the same, so your autistic classmate has to be given a free passes for courses she can't understand, attend a classroom where the teachers have no special training or experience with autism, and interact with kids who find her an object of ridicule or a source of extreme annoyance. That's why she gets to play game boy and is given a free pass.
The problem with disciplining autistic kids is twofold: they only learn on a very primitive level, but because they're human beings, classical conditioning is considered torture. Her antics are caused by hypocritical sympathy and the resultant lack of discipline (effective or otherwise). She isn't evil nor is she a sweet little angel who doesn't understand her own actions. She needs someone to spank her, make her eat her veggies, and tell her to go to her room when she's being bad, but her condition makes that very hard.
Autistic people have a hard time learning, varying degrees of social awkwardness, and an abnormal rate of development, but otherwise, they're ordinary people.
--
jazminions
9 years ago
|
pl
Comment Hidden (
show
)
Report
1
1
That episode of South Park was one of the best lessons in tolerance I had when I was younger, better than any school talk or educational video. It was when I finally understood: "tolerating something doesn't mean you have to like it".