Saturday, December 17, 2005

within the range of normal

My pet peeve: people who express skepticism at high functioning autism as a diagnostic construct (like they know it all) and then take it upon themselves to get super pissed off at every autistic by definition thing I do:

Hilary, personally I don't buy the autism diagnosis: you're no different from anyone else. But stop doing that. It's so fucking bizarre.

2 comments:

neal said...

been there,
that is mid-early phase of learning to cope for your NT friends.

Anonymous said...

Don't know what NT means--help.

I think you're alright. It's the rest of us that are absolutely bizare... I mean, who the hell builds giant pyramidical tombs to honor themselves. Fucking Westerners. At least, Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal for his wife...

...queerdos...