I thought I was autistic but turns out I have a different set of things that manifest similarly on the screeners but have totally different origins and approaches.
I don’t think that’s what these folks are talking about though.
The Behind the Bastards episode on autism was fascinating.
I’m not going to do it justice but the tl;dr is that parents felt like it couldn’t have been their fault or their genes that made their kid this way. That it must have been vaccines or trans frogs or whatever the fuck they can blame. Because blaming something else made them feel better. And it gave them an excuse to not deal with their kid that has real difficulty.
And, to a certain extent…I get it. I don’t agree with them but having a child with a disability was not what they expected.
But you raise the child you have and not the one you wish you had.
It probably doesn’t help that they may have an outdated image of autism. Their child does not have high support needs, so it can’t be that. The doctor must be mistaken.
I think so. It’s been a while since I listened to it.
The sad thing about it is that like many conspiracy theories, they started from a well-meaning place. But the brain rot algorithm pushed them towards fringe theories because it would make people feel better.
everyone is different and unique but the DSM just categorises some patterns as “disorders” because… well it doesn’t make efficient workers in modern society… kinda dumb if you ask me
I thought I was autistic but turns out I have a different set of things that manifest similarly on the screeners but have totally different origins and approaches.
I don’t think that’s what these folks are talking about though.
The Behind the Bastards episode on autism was fascinating.
I’m not going to do it justice but the tl;dr is that parents felt like it couldn’t have been their fault or their genes that made their kid this way. That it must have been vaccines or trans frogs or whatever the fuck they can blame. Because blaming something else made them feel better. And it gave them an excuse to not deal with their kid that has real difficulty.
And, to a certain extent…I get it. I don’t agree with them but having a child with a disability was not what they expected.
But you raise the child you have and not the one you wish you had.
It probably doesn’t help that they may have an outdated image of autism. Their child does not have high support needs, so it can’t be that. The doctor must be mistaken.
My mother grew up in a time where it was considered something a mother ‘did’ to cause it.
Which is why she denies and denies we’re autistic.
I mean, everyone who meets the two of us together go “yeah you both are” soooooo.
That was the one about the “compression clinic” or whatever they were called, right? Where they put kids in hypobaric chambers? Sick fucks
I think so. It’s been a while since I listened to it.
The sad thing about it is that like many conspiracy theories, they started from a well-meaning place. But the brain rot algorithm pushed them towards fringe theories because it would make people feel better.
everyone is different and unique but the DSM just categorises some patterns as “disorders” because… well it doesn’t make efficient workers in modern society… kinda dumb if you ask me
Well it was causing me distress in my personal life, I was pretty successful at work.