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Originally Posted by StbGuy
From some of the comments here, I see people still don't get what autism truly is all about. I guess if people don't want to learn something, then they won't either.
Seeing as I sit "on the other side of the fence" as someone once so eloquently put it, all I see is the ingrained, conditioned desire of being "normal" having permeated so deeply into every living fibre of people, that it becomes impossible to fathom any reality which is different to that. It is truly easier to fit a camel through the eye of a needle.
I find it scary and ironic that the word "denial" coincidentally pops up constantly in this discussion.
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I get what autism is truly about. I live and breathe it every day with my son and my students. There is no desire on my part to make him or them "normal". As someone with MI, I don't even subscribe to the notion of being "normal". I just strive to help my son and students bridge the gap their deficits create so that they can be successful with whatever they chose to do and hopefully be accepted for simply being themselves.