It's like when someone says via AAC, "I have 20 things in common with your child you say has #ProfoundAutism, including self-injurious behaviour, inability to speak, seizures and a need for 24/7 support. May I help you?"
...and you say, "F*** off."
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Oh my goodness, what I am learning about the lived experience of temporal lobe epilepsy is mind-blowing! People can be misdiagnosed with psychological whatnots for years, and be gaslighted into oblivion because of the arrogant ignorance of psych professionals! This is terrible!
We need to distinguish clearly between these terms:
🔷 Disease
🔷 Disorder
🔷 Disability
🔷 Difference
The way we conceptualise and define them translates into the way we treat people, situations and conditions.
The impact on society is immense.
I'm something of a relativist when it comes to some of these: I accept that there are different models and views of some of these, and it's not so much a matter of whether they're right or wrong, but whether they are helpful or not.
And determining THAT depends on our overall life-guiding paradigm and values.
My bag was gone. Phone, everything. They left my wallet on a bench in the mall, flayed, with just some business card I've had in there for ages. I lost my ability to speak as a stumbled towards the busy supermarket. Could just say, with great difficulty, "Police. Police."
But...
I knew that the police would not recover my money, my cards, everything else.
And on top of it all, I had forgotten where I was staying, the name of the hotel.
And then I woke up! I woke up! Haaa, relief after waking from a nightmare is such a nice way to start the day!
I tried to go back to the dream after that so that I could catch the thieves, but I had to decide whether I would do it from the top, swooping down from plan view, or from below, which seemed more complicated but more realistic... So I dozed off in indecision over the plot.
What autism topic do you want me to cover next in my Sunday Twitter Space?
FWIW, the cooking one would be aimed at people who are exhausted, brainfogged, executively dysfunctional or dyspraxic, who are trying to eat as nutritionally as possible, with sensory issues around food, and with food sensitivities.
The sensory overstimulation one would be about the various categories of sensory overload and the cofactors (based on my learning to date), and how I've kept my own sensory overload in remission for 6 years, and what results others (adults and children) have achieved.