Infected Wrong Planet

[harvey dirdban]

Or you could not get diagnosed at all. That means you don't officially have it, right?

No, that just means I don't have diagnosis privilege and am therefore more oppressed than diagnosed people and I can tell them to kill themselves with impunity.

 

[Android raptor]

Geez. Maybe I dodged a bullet by not getting diagnosed until halfway through college.

You very well could've. However a lot depends on how the parents think of the kid (whether they buy into the idea they are inherently incapable of functioning on the same level as NTs or actually see their kids as people first and listen to they want and carefully evaluate programs before sticking their kids in them) as well as the resources the parents have. Good programs that actually respect autistic kids do exist, however they're generally private schools which not everyone has the money for.

IMHO, one of the ways to know if something is crap or not is to observe how instructors treat students. If they talk to them in an obnoxious baby voice and they're older than like, five, and are patronizing as shit drop that shit like a pair of

 

[MW 002]

Ugh, I used to go to Wrong Planet a long time ago.

I would like to think that I managed to dodge a bullet by having no diagnosis until I was 18, but I hung around on the webite at that age because I thought it would be a great way to learn how to prepare myself for the real world.

Two and a half years after managing to find employment doing general farm work (a dying trade might I add), I've come to the conclusion that websites like WP and Tumblr are incredibly toxic.

Yes it is hard to find work where you are not working with bright lights, dealing with strangers 90% of the time and such- BUT, there comes a time when you have to take some form of accountability for yourself.

I myself refer the company of livestock over people and have found I can make decent money working at a meat farm (where lambs and calves live in a pasture until the day they are to be slaughtered). Not for the faint of heart but it's a job where you both work and play hard- I'm fortunate enough to have a job I like but I also did work my ass off prior to gain needed experience prior. From a young age, despite my mom knowing I was different from all other kids, never allowed me to use autism as an excuse for anything regardless the severity. She taught me as a youngster the value of hard work and was able to teach me basic social skills so I could make friends- taught me what behaviour was okay and what wasn't, taught me how to dress in public, taught me basic manners and overall put emphasis on befriending those I shared things in common with.

I think the problem lies with mostly parents who don't expect anything from their ASD child and just set them up for failure by over coddling (I believe coddling is a form of child abuse) and never let them truly learn why some things are just unacceptable or why some things are the way they are. If I had a public meltdown as a child, my mother would never cater to it (especially if it was because I did not get my way) but instead drag me straight home and ground me (all my things got taken away, so I would have nothing to do in my room except to think).

After time passed the messages got through to me, shocking considering I was considering the psychiatrists apparently said I was going to be hopeless in that regard.

If you're on the higher end of the spectrum, you CAN learn and you can set yourself up to succeed as long as you don't allow the diagnosis to define you. There's more to you than that.

 

[AnOminous]

If I had a public meltdown as a child, my mother would never cater to it (especially if it was because I did not get my way) but instead drag me straight home and ground me (all my things got taken away, so I would have nothing to do in my room except to think).

This is exactly what Chris-Chan's parents didn't do.

The thing is, parents can shield their kids from the consequences of a tard rage, but there are serious consequences to not learning not to do that.

Adults who do that get locked up.

 

[Android raptor]

To be far there's a difference between a meltdown and a tantrum. A tantrum is something a kid chooses to because they didn't get their way. A meltdown is something a lot less voluntary and is more like a computer overheating after trying to run too much shit for too long. Of course both aren't really tolerated in public, though.

When I worked at Kroger (which is a terrible idea for someone on the spectrum BTW) trying to fend off meltdowns was a daily, shitty experience. If it got particilarily bad I'd sneak off to the restroom and self injure, which actually broke a couple years being clean (something I haven't accomplished since, sadly).

Best way to deal with meltdowns IMHO is to try and hole away in a quiet, non crowded place for a bit or try to limit time spent in over stimulating places (like try not to spend more than 30 minutes at the grocery store, avoid a coffee shop that has a loud grinder, etc).

Wow I just realized I hijacked this thread to blab about the sperg life for the past couple pages.

 

[Adamska]

To be far there's a difference between a meltdown and a tantrum. A tantrum is something a kid chooses to because they didn't get their way. A meltdown is something a lot less voluntary and is more like a computer overheating after trying to run too much shit for too long. Of course both aren't really tolerated in public, though.

When I worked at Kroger (which is a terrible idea for someone on the spectrum BTW) trying to fend off meltdowns was a daily, shitty experience. If it got particilarily bad I'd sneak off to the restroom and self injure, which actually broke a couple years being clean (something I haven't accomplished since, sadly).

Best way to deal with meltdowns IMHO is to try and hole away in a quiet, non crowded place for a bit or try to limit time spent in over stimulating places (like try not to spend more than 30 minutes at the grocery store, avoid a coffee shop that has a loud grinder, etc).

Wow I just realized I hijacked this thread to blab about the sperg life for the past couple pages.

Eh, it's an improvement compared to the site. Speaking of which, for laughs I checked the political section that covers the 'tism. Some particular winners include a thread that mocks the idea of treating and curing it, creating a church specifically designed with autists in mind, and the amazing level of ignorance regarding accommodations for those with the 'tism.

Basically, this site has remained the festering pile of refuse I remember it to be.

 

[LordCustos3]

Autist supremacists confuse me. Exactly how do they think society would function with nothing but autism? Or do they think lowly neurotypicals will be their slaves?

Welllll....let's play amateur "Speculative Fiction Writer" and see what kind of Sci-Fi Dystopia would result from that.....

• Okay, first off...comedy as we understand it would not exist.
• Neither would any of the more abstract types of art/cinema/literature. Poetry wouldn't exist either.
• Religion would either be much more pervasive or completely nonexistent.
• There would be no "organized" religion, because it would all be 7 billion incompatible sub-sub-sub-creeds.
• All interactivity would be virtual.
• Inflicting Butthurt would be a jail-worthy offense.
• Almost everyone would have a "criminal record" for Inflicting Butthurt at some point.
• Entertainment would be 1/2 brightly colored, unchallenging kiddie shows (to appease 'spergs who are mentally age 4) and 1/2 drably minimalist psuedodrama (so as to not inflict Sensory Overload on those who can't cope with the brightly colored, unchallenging kiddie shows)
• News programs would be even more content-free than they are now.
• Vidya games would ALL be braindead, content-free grindquests from a narrow field of tired franchises (yeah, yeah, yeah..."Hows that any different than IRL right now, Custos?" ....imagine if it were 10x more rigid and stale.)
  
• Sports would narrow to.....never mind. I can't even imagine that there would be any Sports.
• Social Discourse would ALL be a #gamergate-esque clusterfuck of emptyheaded copypasta between a byzantine, ultra-balkanized morass of warring super-insular, ultra-exclusive WrongPlanet/MRA/Brony/SJW-ish cults. Language in general would deteriorate, as every single person speaks in nothing but their own equivalent of personal CWCisms. Dictionaries would become useless; either that or UrbanDictionary would have more content than Wikipedia.
  
• Economies would grind to a halt and deteriorate into chaos (except those small sub-sectors controlled by a tiny elite of mathematical uber-Nerds, who will make currency even more meaninglessly abstruse.) Barter would become the order of the day for the Serfs and Peasants.

Through the natural genius that is the birthright of every autistic.

Wow. Ayn Rand would be pleased.

Or pissed and demand royalties.

 

[MW 002]

To be far there's a difference between a meltdown and a tantrum. A tantrum is something a kid chooses to because they didn't get their way. A meltdown is something a lot less voluntary and is more like a computer overheating after trying to run too much shit for too long. Of course both aren't really tolerated in public, though.

When I worked at Kroger (which is a terrible idea for someone on the spectrum BTW) trying to fend off meltdowns was a daily, shitty experience. If it got particilarily bad I'd sneak off to the restroom and self injure, which actually broke a couple years being clean (something I haven't accomplished since, sadly).

Best way to deal with meltdowns IMHO is to try and hole away in a quiet, non crowded place for a bit or try to limit time spent in over stimulating places (like try not to spend more than 30 minutes at the grocery store, avoid a coffee shop that has a loud grinder, etc).

Wow I just realized I hijacked this thread to blab about the sperg life for the past couple pages.

If I may intrude (and ask advice), are you physically active?

I usually find that if I take a half hour jog then I can feel somewhat more level headed (though for me, since I work at a physically intense job it beame moot as I now am throwing 10 pound hay bales ten feet away).

 

[LordCustos3]

Shit.

Hey man, watch your fucking language.

 

[Android raptor]

If I may intrude (and ask advice), are you physically active?

I usually find that if I take a half hour jog then I can feel somewhat more level headed (though for me, since I work at a physically intense job it beame moot as I now am throwing 10 pound hay bales ten feet away).

Not as much as I should. However what I'd do when I worked at Kroger was try and trade for lot shifts, which my coworkers were generally fine with since they all seemed to hate lot. It was actually going okay until someone in charge forbid us to do that then overstimilation nation really kicked up in earnest.

 

[GREEDY FIREMAN]

If such a society did exist though, dating and romance may very well work very differently in it. There'd be a lot of literal bluntness in trying to get relationships, and likely little subtle flirting. Maybe "Attraction Signs" would catch on and become a popular "attraction method" in such a society?

Spoiler: The most successful playboy on Planet Sperg!

 

[Eldritch]

My half-brother has aspergers. he does nothing but watch anime and read crap on Fanfiction.com. he wears a fedora in public. he can't ride his bike anymore because he has absolutely zero environmental awareness and got hit by a car. when he did ride his bike he wore black tinted goggles. If he had his way, he would eat McDonalds every day. he owns a practice sword (zweihander) and nunchuks and says he wants to go to japan one day.

His life's ambition is to be an actor, but he only talks in non-sequitur jokes and obvious questions.

He is 21 years old.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Just what is the appeal of the fedora (& trilby) to some people on the spectrum? Do people on WP talk about those hats a lot?

 

[Eldritch]

Just what is the appeal of the fedora (& trilby) to some people on the spectrum? Do people on WP talk about those hats a lot?

Personally, I think they see it as charismatic, like an old timey private eye.

 

[Android raptor]

Idk, the autists I know don't seem to be particularly drawn to them while as the people I know who wear them the most aren't on the spectrum. Including one who is also a brony and vocal atheist (though he stopped wearing trilbeys a while back and sticks to TRUE and HONEST fedoras now. And top hats).

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Just what is the appeal of the fedora (& trilby) to some people on the spectrum? Do people on WP talk about those hats a lot?

If you're talking about me? Then I'd have to say they're overrated and suck. Thanks internet.

Now if if just in general, I assume it's because they see people like Linkara wearing them and think to themselves "Boy, would I look cool in that." Though I tend to think this more about the internet at large than I do just autistics.

 

[Pine Tar]

Idk, the autists I know don't seem to be particularly drawn to them while as the people I know who wear them the most aren't on the spectrum. Including one who is also a brony and vocal atheist (though he stopped wearing trilbeys a while back and sticks to TRUE and HONEST fedoras now. And top hats).

People who wear fedoras without suits might as well have the self-awareness of someone who's autistic anyway.

 

[Android raptor]

People who wear fedoras without suits might as well have the self-awareness of someone who's autistic anyway.

One time the aforementioned atheist brony walked in wearing khaki pants, a polo shirt, and a top hat. It was a sight to behold.

 

[FramerGirl420]

Idk, the autists I know don't seem to be particularly drawn to them while as the people I know who wear them the most aren't on the spectrum. Including one who is also a brony and vocal atheist (though he stopped wearing trilbeys a while back and sticks to TRUE and HONEST fedoras now. And top hats).

<- your friend.

 

[Pine Tar]

One time the aforementioned atheist brony walked in wearing khaki pants, a polo shirt, and a top hat. It was a sight to behold.

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