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I have high-functioning autism. I wasn't diagnosed until i was 12. A foid who went to observe me in class in 2007/08 when i was in 4th grade believed i had autism but i wasn't tested until 2010 at age 12 and i was diagnosed.
Since then, i would be put in all these groups and none of these fucking groups helped. But authority has a big guilt by association for autists despite knowing it's a spectrum. Many times i was put in programs and while i had good social skills, many others had exceptionally awful social skills, or were super quiet/introverted, or would be way more socially awkward than i ever was, etc. As a result, i never could relate to 80% of them, while when i'm with NT people i feel instant connection to them. These programs would teach me basic social skills that i knew since i was a damn toddler. These programs in fact never taught me anything. And my parents and psychologists don't want me living on my own apartment or doing other independent things everyone my age (23) does because they think i'm "not ready" even though i am. but i never got to adapt to adulthood because of these people. Authority figures are a fuckin joke, they acknowledge autism being a spectrum of many kinds of people but treat us like we're all the same. They've done that a few decades ago with learning disability students (people of all kinds of learning disabilities were put in class together, ADD students put with dyslexic students who are put with autists who are put with students who have trouble focusing put with maybe even mentally retarded students) and it was a problem because it made it difficult for teachers to help each student's issues individually.
Now i'm treated like a little kid in my 20s because "guilt by association" and when i struggle to adapt to adulthood, my parents think "oh well it must be the autism" when it's really their fault. I wasn't behind my peers until my HS, and the infantilization got worse in HS (and even worse in college), and as it got worse i became more and more behind my peers.
@coldmachinery @Total Imbecile @Colvin76 @Robtical @ordinaryotaku @Autismus Maximus
Since then, i would be put in all these groups and none of these fucking groups helped. But authority has a big guilt by association for autists despite knowing it's a spectrum. Many times i was put in programs and while i had good social skills, many others had exceptionally awful social skills, or were super quiet/introverted, or would be way more socially awkward than i ever was, etc. As a result, i never could relate to 80% of them, while when i'm with NT people i feel instant connection to them. These programs would teach me basic social skills that i knew since i was a damn toddler. These programs in fact never taught me anything. And my parents and psychologists don't want me living on my own apartment or doing other independent things everyone my age (23) does because they think i'm "not ready" even though i am. but i never got to adapt to adulthood because of these people. Authority figures are a fuckin joke, they acknowledge autism being a spectrum of many kinds of people but treat us like we're all the same. They've done that a few decades ago with learning disability students (people of all kinds of learning disabilities were put in class together, ADD students put with dyslexic students who are put with autists who are put with students who have trouble focusing put with maybe even mentally retarded students) and it was a problem because it made it difficult for teachers to help each student's issues individually.
Now i'm treated like a little kid in my 20s because "guilt by association" and when i struggle to adapt to adulthood, my parents think "oh well it must be the autism" when it's really their fault. I wasn't behind my peers until my HS, and the infantilization got worse in HS (and even worse in college), and as it got worse i became more and more behind my peers.
@coldmachinery @Total Imbecile @Colvin76 @Robtical @ordinaryotaku @Autismus Maximus
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