Autism Community: Its Ok To Disagree, But Play Nice written by Autism Daddy So I wrote 2 somewhat controversial posts on Friday. One on the Jillian Mccabe case that took me days to write. And one on the Jerry Seinfeld autism story that literally took me 15 minutes to write. And, of course, it was the Seinfeld one that went viral and started a war of sorts between the high functioning community & the low functioning community and that was never, ever my intent. I know many parents with high functioning kids & aspie kids. I know their struggles are real. And Ive seen first hand how extremely hard it can be on a daily basis. And Ive witnessed …how mean people can be out in public when a verbal kid who seems so close to typical has a complete meltdown. Anyway, with all of that being said, the point of my Seinfeld post is that…. Im human... and Ive written before that sometimes its hard for me to always have the lowest functioning kid in any given setting. I stopped going to an autism dads support group years ago because I couldnt relate to many of their problems & issues. So, Im human and I write about whats going on in my brain and when Jerry diagnosed himself i wrote this... ...Seinfeld saying that makes me feel even less connected to those on the mildest end of the spectrum. How can Jerry Seinfeld have the same disorder as my son? The aspies & people on the highest end of the spectrum must be living on a complete different planet from my son! How can these be the same condition? Do they share any of the same traits?!... Thats what was going thru my brain when I first read saw the Seinfeld interview. Anyway, many people agreed with me, and many others vehemently disagreed with me. And that is fine with me... But I think a HUGE problem in our autism community is that nobody is allowed to disagree with each other. And many people think that because of my writing style that I feel this way too... That its my way or the highway. But that is so not how I feel. I am totally fine with people disagreeing with me on all sorts of different... (CONTINUE READING AT autism-daddy.blogspot/2014/11/autism-community-its-ok-to-disagree-but.html)
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:55:00 +0000
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