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Originally Posted by CrewCut
Stb,
Yes, I do not think that she or anyone with Autism needs to be fixed or even think that they are not normal. I just wondered if anyone in her family has ever discussed it with her. While I was reading up on the subject, I found that people with Asperger's sometimes think they are different than everyone. Knowing why we think or act a certain way is empowerment. When we broke up, she seemed confused as to why. I really did not know what to say to her.
Take me for instance. I have found that some people think depression is self-pity. I have even been told that to my face. It really ticks me off when I hear that because it so incredibly far from the truth. But I have found the more I learn about depression, and ways to cope with it, helps me immensely.
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Yes, for sure. It can actually begin to spread to any mental "abnormality". People who have never experienced these things don't regard depression, autism, bipolar, etc. as "normal".
What gets me most is how people enforce the belief that "normal" = correct, and subsequently any deviation from that must be corrected or fixed.
And, the truth is, it is not for
our benefit as these people claim, but solely for their own. They don't know how to deal with people who are autistic, depressed, etc. so they try to define it as a "problem" so it can be "fixed". It is simply because
they don't have the tact and the understanding to deal with it. Truly, they have a much bigger problem than you or I have/had, being depressed and autistic, respectively. Indeed, it is them that needs fixing!
But OK, I digress. Normal is simply the norm, a numbers thing. Just because something occurs the most, doesn't mean it's correct. Any person who tries to treat autism and tries to bash it out of someone's brain to make them more normal is automatically elevating themselves higher than that person, because who are they to judge what is acceptable and not acceptable social behaviour? They simply go by what is acceptable by society's standards.
I think this can really leave a lot of damage on a person, especially a child, when they are subjected to such "therapies".